Nicer grid than listview

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Ivan Weiss

Hi all, I am writing an app that displays data such as a list of
customers, vendors, products etc... in a listview. The listview however
is pretty ugly and boring and I am pretty bad at making things look
"pretty" on my own so does anyone know of any nice components out there?
I found a nice component for my toolbar and menubar that makes it look
like office 2003 which is very nice but now want to jazz this part up on
my app...

Thanks in advance!

-Ivan
 
Hi Ivan,

Unfortunately even the good controls out there require a good deal of work
to get them 'pretty'. You might take a look at Component One's listview
control; also, take a look at Bennet-Tec tlist control (www.bennet-tec.com).

HTH,

Bernie Yaeger
 
I know this request may make this seem impossible but I was actually
hoping to find free components. I have found several really nice things
at http://www.divil.co.uk/net. It needs to be free since this is an app
I am working on my own spare time so there is zero budget for it.

Thanks!

-Ivan
 
* Ivan Weiss said:
Hi all, I am writing an app that displays data such as a list of
customers, vendors, products etc... in a listview. The listview however
is pretty ugly and boring and I am pretty bad at making things look
"pretty" on my own so does anyone know of any nice components out there?
I found a nice component for my toolbar and menubar that makes it look
like office 2003 which is very nice but now want to jazz this part up on
my app...
Click to expand...

Why not use a datagrid?
 
I did not want to use a datagrid for two reasons. First, it displays
columns and rows in access/excel format. I do not want row numbers to
be displayed and instead of column 'A' I want column "Company Name"
etc... Secondly, do not want the user to be able to edit any records
directly in this table as given my application that is surely going to
result in mistakes from the users and I will have a data integrity
issue.

Although the benefit of allowing a datagrid to be databound and
automatically read from the database without me having to write code for
it would be a beautiful thing. What are your suggestions?

-Ivan
 
Hi Ivan,

Did you look at by instance a datagrid with

Me.DataGrid1.FlatMode = True
Me.DataGrid1.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.None
Me.DataGrid1.CaptionVisible = False
Me.DataGrid1.RowHeadersVisible = False
Me.DataGrid1.ColumnHeadersVisible = False

And more things?

Cor
 
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