Greg McGuffey (03/14/2008)

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I totally understand. I was there not so long ago. It's very cool when it starts to click .

If I get a chance, I'll post the control in a sample app next week...no promises, it's been busy.

Well, you want believe how happy I was to have the snippet working, since that will save me some time and it is way better than copy and paste.

Thanks for the offer.

Trent, I am glad to see you understood my situation.  In this project I estimate having at least 8-12 simple Maintenance form in which I would like to use my form layout of showing the data in a grid or listview, and 3-5 main forms which will require a lot of coding (remember I am re-doing my VFP applications with SF).  That is why I am testing the grid and the listview to decide which one I will use for these forms, so this will be a kind of repeating thing in all my projects and I really hate to copy & paste all the time.

Greg McGuffey has a class for the listview that he may be able to post some sample next week, but that may not happen, so if it is easier for you to post some start code for me to give it a shot in creating a similar class for the listview, I am willing to take the risk and spend the time working with this class, just be ready for more questions

I have attached a test program that does what you want.  If you navigate through the maintenance form toolstrip, the data grid view is updated.  If you select a record through the grid, it updates and fires the Navigated event.  It works as advertised...there must be something in the MaintenanceForm template that is causing the funny behavior.

Anyway, all you have to do is this to produce a maintenance form:

1. Create a Standard Form
2. Drop on a gradient form header
3. Drop on a maintenance form toolstrip

That's it

I would not have believed that in a million years if I didn't see it with my own eyes .

This sample uses the StrataFrameSample database and has a maintenance form toolstrip on it and loads the top 100 records and show them in a grid view.

I tested your sample and it fact works, but it is not stable. At some point it will stop working, either if I add a GroupBox or a ThemedContainer, it will stop working and after a while for no reason.

I guess will have to use the ListView as suggested before in order to keep moving on.

Edhy, I have tested this over and over and it works fine.  I am not sure what issue you are running into here, but there is more than likely something else being placed in your code that is causing the issue.  I have also double-checked with some people that I KNOW are using this logic and they are not having issues.  You might dig a little deeper...I prefer the ListView method anyway, but if you want to keep with this, people use grids in this fashion everyday...so I think that there is probably something else going on here.

Thanks Trent, I will keep looking at this since I like the fact of the grid being manage/synch with the MaintenanceFormToolStrip.