Is it possible to have a dropdown box in a datagrid?

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Is it possible to have a dropdown box in a datagrid record in the same way
you can have it in an Access table?

E.g.: When I populate my child table, I have a field which lookup a value in
the parent table. Access allow this and makes it easy to ensure that the user
can't enter anything else than what is available on the list. I would like to
duplicate this functionality in my datagrid. Otherwise I will have to use
list and combo boxes instead of the datagrid to help the user enter child
records correctly.

Any Ideas?
 
Use ItemTemplate in datagrid declaration which you can bind at runtime to a
specific datasource.
Put DropDown listbox as an item in ItemTemplate so that you will get
expected result.

Reg.
Prasad
 
Paul,

I assume you are talking about a windowsform datagrid.
In VS 2005 this is standard in the datagridview

For the older versions there are plenty of samples on Internet.
This one is the latest I have done changing them to get them usable with
option strict on in VBNet. (There is another one as well, known on internet
as the comboboxcolumn, on our website)

http://www.windowsformsdatagridhelp.com/default.aspx?ID=1eb83247-7464-467e-a9dd-faf92f41f563

I hope this helps,

Cor
 
Thanks a million, especially for the link to your website! Your samples are
so simple to use and at the same time so advanced!
 
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