DataGrid parent relationships for nested elements, or any kind offormatting!

[Gary]

Hi,

I'm making a very simple app for editing an XML document using a
datagrid. As much as I'd like to, I can't use a datagridview box
because it uses hierarchical elements nested a few levels deep. The
problem comes when it was requested to make some way to indicate a row
has been edited. Since datagrid doesn't seem to support ANY formatting
at all, I decided to just make a column at the beginning of the table
called "Edited" and put an "X" if something was modified.

That almost worked, but it has an issue whenever I go into one of the
nested elements. The "Edited" column is in the very top level table,
so when I have code such as:

Me.Item(Me.CurrentCell.RowNumber, 0) = "X"
' The "me" object being the datagrid

It will set an X as the first column in that particular table, which
is actually a data column and not the "Edited" column of its parent
table.

I do have an XML schema for determining relationships, but haven't had
any luck with it so far. Is there a possible way to just reference the
upper most parent table from an element, or even better: a way to just
signify a cell has been edited without all the column mess?

Thanks so much in advance! Let me know if anyone needs some more
sample code and/or specifics.

-Gary

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Since datagrid doesn't seem to support ANY formatting

at all,

Do you mean the webbased datgagrid?
The winforms datagrid has an extend set of column formating

Cor

 

[Gary]

Since datagrid doesn't seem to support ANY formatting


Do you mean the webbased datgagrid?
The winforms datagrid has an extend set of column formating

Cor

Actually the winforms one. I haven't been able to find any kind of
coloring formatting at all - how would you go about that?

-Gary

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Hi Garry,

http://www.vb-tips.com/dbpages.aspx?Search=columnstyles

Cor

Since datagrid doesn't seem to support ANY formatting


Do you mean the webbased datgagrid?
The winforms datagrid has an extend set of column formating

Cor

Actually the winforms one. I haven't been able to find any kind of
coloring formatting at all - how would you go about that?

-Gary