Outlook style form

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nick warrington

Hi

Im trying to create a winforms application that has a display similar to that of the threaded mail view in outlook.

Question is, what control to use to start to generate this view. It looks like perhaps a tree view but has some characteristics of a list view. I have started playing with the datagrid to see if it can do the trick, but it seems
difficult to get the datagrid to display the submessage data correctly.

Can anyone suggest a which control MS used to create this view and if its possible with the standard winforms controls.

Thanks in advance

Nick
 
Nick,

Looking at the control in Spy++, the name of the class (windows class,
that is), is SUPERGRID. However, I doubt you will be able to access it
outside of outlook.

I also don't believe that there is a standard windows control that will
give you the functionality that you want (although you might want to try the
listview control).

Your best bet might be to go with a control suite that is offered by
third parties.

Hope this helps.


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nick warrington said:
Hi

Im trying to create a winforms application that has a display similar to
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that of the threaded mail view in outlook.
Question is, what control to use to start to generate this view. It looks
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like perhaps a tree view but has some characteristics of a list view. I have
started playing with the datagrid to see if it can do the trick, but it
seems
difficult to get the datagrid to display the submessage data correctly.

Can anyone suggest a which control MS used to create this view and if its
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possible with the standard winforms controls.
 
It certainly does help.

I might have a google for the SUPERGRID. I will also investigate Spy++
which I have not used before. (you may have guessed I am a bit new to this :)

I have had a look at some third party tools but not really found anything
yet that anybody has used to do anything close to what I want. The search
goes on.

I did think about the listview control, but wondered whether the tree
structure that appears to exist in the outlook control was something that
would be pain free to implement using the listview.

I also thought about the treeview but then couldn't get the columns and
some of the highlighting in the control for free.

I'll keep trying and thanks for the help.

Nick
 
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