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Find out how to use a single DataGridView to display dynamic queries, adjusting columns automatically, and how to format individual cells exactly the way you want users to see them.

Out of the box, the DataGridView only allows sorting by a single column. This article presents code that enables users to sort their data in a DataGridView by multiple columns. The DataGridView derived class may be used for any data types that support the IComparable interface (which includes all the basic .NET types).

The DataGridView control, new in Windows Forms 2.0, is so versatile and powerful that beginners can easily be overwhelmed by the options. Here's an at-your-fingertips reference to some of the most common and useful things you can do with it. (OK there aren't really 101 ways but there are a lot!)

The DataGridView Windows Forms control is a new .NET control introduced in MS Visual Studio .NET 2005 that is a good alternative to the VS .NET 1.x DataGrid control.

Within the DataGridView .NET 2.x control the data table presentation features became much easier to implement in .NET Windows application. The most attractive features of the new control are:

• It allows for the mix both data bound and unbound, virtual columns in the GridView.
• It has a special virtual mode allowing for the display of more than 100.000 rows without a huge performance hit.
• Individual columns, rows, cells or an entire data source can easily be styled.

The most popular instrument to access database data for .NET applications is ADO.NET. This set of components contains three main classes those are used to manipulate and store data: DataReader, DataSet and DataAdapter. DataReader is only able to read data and can't work as data source for data-aware components like DataGridView; DataSet provides all interfaces to be a data source but disconnected model considers some restrictions that can become important for some kind of applications, especially for desktop programs that work under multiuser concurrent environment and change database data actively. Below we consider main restrictions and popular ways to solve them; non standard solutions are considered also.

How to gain access to the DataGridViewComboBoxEditingControl's properties, methods and events.

This is a dialog window that allows filtering a datagridview. It can build filters with any depth of parentheses.

The ultimate printing component. Use it to print ListBoxes, ListViews, TreeViews, DataGridViews, Forms, TabPages, or even your own UserControls.