if you want to read up on DataGrids, I really suggest you find that article.
It is really well written, and will give you a strong foundation for using
the grid, which I think is a pretty complicated UI tool. Google Chris Sano
and " Styling with the DataGridColumnStyle".
As for your style not being applied, I checked your source, and although you
are changing your datasource, you are not telling the Table Style to be
applied to the new datasource... it will only be applied to a datasource
named "ArrayList". If you change this to "clsGridRows", it will style as
expected. This is because, for example with a DataSet, you can have several
tables viewable through a DataGrid, and each table can have its own style,
so when the grid displays a table, it looks for a style that matches the
table, or provides a default style if it isn't found. So, you switched the
datasource, but the style was still looking for the arraylist.
"Matthew Woods" <mw****@bearwagner.com> wrote in message
news:um**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Thanks John, i didn't have too much success with the link you provided so
i
have zipped up a test project which highlights the problem. when i comment
out lines labeled "Method 2" i am binding an arraylist to the grid which
correctly applies the "CustomStyle()" but when i start the timer to change
the data the grid is only updated if i uncomment the datagrid1.refresh();
line in the timer.
when lines marked Method 1 are commented out and Method 2 are uncommented,
the grid refreshes correctly (without the need for a datagrid1.refresh())
because the ListChangedEvent is fired correctly BUT i cannot set the
style.
perhaps you (or anyone else for that matter, all help appreciated) could
take a quick look at the code, add any appropriate changes and re-post the
code.
Thanks
Matt
"John Richardson" <j3**********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... If the style isn't being applied, then the style isn't being mapped
correctly to your datasource. You can have several styles bound to a
grid, but the one that gets used is when the MappingName of the style matches
the Name (ie: DataTable.Name) of the DataSource. I'm not an expert, but this
is where I would look at solving your problem. I think there is a
"DefaultStyle" property on the grid you could look at. Or does the
IBindingList interface supply a "Name" property? This must match the
mapping name of the style you have.
An excellent article on the innerworkings of the DataGrid and how it
binds
to a datasource, is by Chris Sano.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclien...lumnstyle1.asp
"Matthew Woods" <mw****@bearwagner.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... > Hi, is there any way to format and order the columns displayed in a
> datagrid
> bound to a class that inherits from IBindingList? i have used
> DataGridTableStyle and added DataGridTextBoxColumns to it in the
> correct
> order which works fine if the dataGrid.dataSource = "ArrayList", but it
> doesn't work for my IBindingList wrapper.
> If i bind the datasource to the arraylist method then the
> ListChangedEventHandler is never invoked and my grid only updates if i
> refresh the currencymanager or the grid itself but obviously this does not > satisfy the requirement of displying "live" data.
>
> to summarise, i can update my grid live when bound to my IBindingList
> class
> that wraps round my data class but i can't set the order of the columns at > runtime using DataGridTableStyle. Any hints (with examples) would be much > appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt
>
>
