This article is original content by contributor Mike Heffernan

It is well known that most Windows Forms  are not thread safe, and all changes to these controls should run (be marshaled on to) the thread processing windows events (the UI thread). Worker…

It is sometimes necessary to make a column which is editable in the underlying data read-only or disabled in the grid.  This can be done by changing the Activation on several levels of objects.

To disable editing in the entire grid or on a Band-level…

Introduction

The DataFilter in the WinGrid provides a powerful and flexible means for transforming data from one format to another when putting data into or extracting it from the grid. This article will demonstrate data filtering by showing an  WinGrid…

To select all the rows in the UltraWinGrid programmatically, the obvious solution is to loop through all the rows and set the Selected Property of each row to true. However, this is inefficient and if there are a lot of rows in the grid, it can take more…

Introduction

The UltraWinGrid column headers SupportThemes property is set to True by default.  This setting allows the grid to let the operating system draw certain aspects of the control with an XP theme. If you try to set the column headers of the grid…

Best Practices for Placing a DropDown or Combo in an WinGrid Cell

Summary

It is often desirable to place a dropdown list of choices in a cell of the grid. This has several advantages:

1. The user can drop down a list and pick one of several options…