I am working on a form below and I want to provide the user with a readonly datagridview so they can just click the selected record and then show that record at the bottom for maintenance. 

Right now, the datagridview control is not responding to the navigation events. I found this old post http://forum.strataframe.net/Topic9799-7-1.aspx?Highlight=datagridview, but I am not sure is this has been fixed?

Is the datagridview control suppose to respond to the navigation events automatically or do I have to change some properties to make it work?

Thanks!

I had implemented ListView in a previous test project, but I found I had to do many little steps in order to make it work, beside having to format all listview columns. 

I am testing now with the grid and it looks easier to handle, except that it is not working with the navigation events.  I have many forms to do and I am in the process of choosing which control to use based on which one will take less time to implement and easier for me to remember many little steps or a lot of copy and paste.

Back to the situation, will the datagridview works or not with the navigation bar?

Or will this be easier with a 3rd party grid from DevExpress? (I have not tried it yet)

Look at the Business Binding Source sample that comes with the framework and it should get you going in the right direction.

Whether you use a 3rd party grid or the data grid view you should have the same behavior.

Trent,

I am sorry to insist on this one, but apparently the problem with the Maintenance Form reported by Ben Hayat on 6/26/2007 still exist.

I tried Ben's test with a standard form and the datagridview is working as expected.  I would really appreciated if you can check this out to see how to make all this work as expected.

Thanks for the info.  The problem here is that I am a real novice in VB.NET.  Today it took me a couple of hours to create my own code snippet using the help file and then I got a sample snippet and finally I got my very first snipet. 

About classes and sub-classes still I have not played with them, I can manage to work it out better with a startup sample and that is how I have been able to get through my learning curve.

I have used the ListView in my first test project with a couple of forms and end up copying/pasting a lot of stuff from one form to the other.  I will review it again with your recomendations and see how far I can go.

There is an issue that has not bee fixed as it related to bubbling up the events (this has been discussed) but this really isn't a show stopper in most cases.  Here is the deal, a grid, report, etc. expects to talk to an object model that implements the IBIndingList interface.  So this is what the business binding source does.  It allows you to wrap a BO and then creates a unique BO instance for each row that emits the proper row reference.  This is what a grid wants...so the issue is that the parent business object (the instance being wrapped) works fine, but the events for each internal BO do not bubble up to the parent...but this will only effect events such as the field changed event, etc.  The Navigated event of the instance being wrapped should be getting raised.

It is on the slate to make this bubble up change before the next update...but I will take a look at this next week and see how much time will be involved in making this change and see if I can plop something out here.  The reason this isn't high on our list is that this is generally not an issue in most circumstances....thus the priority on this enhancement is pretty low since there are so many other ways to address this.

I will look at this again and refresh my memory, and it is still in a list that we keep up with, but that is the issue.

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.