Re: In-place editable Grid Control in MFC

From:

David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:36:25 -0400

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j.j.a.perks@googlemail.com wrote:

using VS 2005 Pro on a large MFC/ATL app...

I need to display a grid control which the users can edit in-place.
I've seen references to the MS DataGrid in the Help file, would this
be suitable? In particular, does it need a "real" DB connection (which
would rule it out), or can it, as in Windows Forms, just be given some
kind of sequence object as a data source?

Even if this is suitable, how would I find it? I've installed all of
VS2005 (except SQL Server Express), and I don't appear to have
MSDatGrd.ocx or its friends anywhere on my system (never mind the
licensing issues mentioned in the Knowledge Base).

John:

If you are willing to let the dreaded .NET into your application, you
can use the DataGridView control. MFC has CView and CDialog classes for
hosting a .NET form in MFC.

Not sure I would recommend this, but I did get it to work in a test
application (using the Orcas beta, but VS2005 should be much the same I
think).

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP