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Nested datagridview control in VB.NET

Hi all.

I have a datagridview control in Visual Studio 2008 that displays "header" information, but I want to be able to display "detail" information for each row in the datagridview control when the user clicks it. I have attached a screenshot of what the datagridview control looks like right now. Each MasterItemNumber has more than one price details.

For example:

MasterItemNumber: productABC
Price1: $4
Price2: $5.50
Price3: $6

I don't want to display 3 rows with the same header information to be able to show the 3 prices. Instead I would like to show 1 row for each MasterItemNumber and if the end user clicks or double clicks a row then it will display some kind of nested datagridview control with the 3 prices or 4 or 5 prices etc. It is a Windows Form.

Is this possible? If not, what are my alternatives?

Thank you in advance.

Jerry Miller

I have not done it with a datagridview control, but with a gridview control. I used this MSDN page as a guideline.

Basically you nest the 'detail' grid as a Templatefield and use the primary key from the parent grid to query the details.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa992038(v=vs.90).aspx

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ASKER

Thank you. But that is for a web form, the GridView control is not available for Windows Form.

Jerry Miller

Windows Form version, sorry I missed that line in your question. I submitted a request for attention to see if we can get others involved. I don't do much with the Windows Form apps.

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Jacques Bourgeois (James Burger)

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ASKER

Thanks James.