UI control to present hierarchical data

[Marco Pais]

Hi there.

I am trying to find th best way (best UI control) to present hierarchical
data, nested tables. For example, I have a Employees table (id, name) and
EmployeesSales (id, idEmp, description, value).
I want to show this in an hierarchical mode, so I tried DataGrid control.
However, as I read somewhere, this DataGrid can only show one table at a
time, i.e., when I click "plus" sign, I have only a link to the
EmployeesSales table.

So my question is, wich UI control can I use? Could I consider Treeview? Or
maybe try to find third party controls (unfortunatly, must be free).

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Marco Pais

[Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )]

Re: UI control to present hierarchical data

On May 5, 7:55 am, "Marco Pais" <marco.pais[at]gmail.comwrote:

Hi there.
>
I am trying to find th best way (best UI control) to present hierarchical
data, nested tables. For example, I have a Employees table (id, name) and
EmployeesSales (id, idEmp, description, value).

I want to show this in an hierarchical mode, so I tried DataGrid control.
However, as I read somewhere, this DataGrid can only show one table at a
time, i.e., when I click "plus" sign, I have only a link to the
EmployeesSales table.
>
So my question is, wich UI control can I use? Could I consider Treeview? Or
maybe try to find third party controls (unfortunatly, must be free).
>
Thanks in advance.
>
Regards,
>
Marco Pais

We use the controls from Infragistics, theirs grid support that. Take
a look at the examples:

http://samples.infragistics.com/2008.1/webfeaturebrowser/contents.aspx?showCode=True&t=WebGrid/HierarchicalGrid/HierarchicalGrid.aspx~srcview.aspx?path=../webfeaturebrowservb/WebGrid/HierarchicalGrid/HierarchicalGrid.src~srcview.aspx?path=WebGrid/HierarchicalGrid/HierarchicalGrid.src

[Marco Pais]

Re: UI control to present hierarchical data

Yeah.. I know those controls. Unfortunatly, I'm not able to afford it.

Thanks for the reply...


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On May 5, 7:55 am, "Marco Pais" <marco.pais[at]gmail.comwrote:

Hi there.
>
I am trying to find th best way (best UI control) to present hierarchical
data, nested tables. For example, I have a Employees table (id, name) and
EmployeesSales (id, idEmp, description, value).

I want to show this in an hierarchical mode, so I tried DataGrid control.
However, as I read somewhere, this DataGrid can only show one table at a
time, i.e., when I click "plus" sign, I have only a link to the
EmployeesSales table.
>
So my question is, wich UI control can I use? Could I consider Treeview?
Or
maybe try to find third party controls (unfortunatly, must be free).
>
Thanks in advance.
>
Regards,
>
Marco Pais

We use the controls from Infragistics, theirs grid support that. Take
a look at the examples:

http://samples.infragistics.com/2008.1/webfeaturebrowser/contents.aspx?showCode=True&t=WebGrid/HierarchicalGrid/HierarchicalGrid.aspx~srcview.aspx?path=../webfeaturebrowservb/WebGrid/HierarchicalGrid/HierarchicalGrid.src~srcview.aspx?path=WebGrid/HierarchicalGrid/HierarchicalGrid.src

[gerry]

Re: UI control to present hierarchical data

check out march & april 2008 MSDN Mag for LISTVIEW control usage.



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On May 5, 7:55 am, "Marco Pais" <marco.pais[at]gmail.comwrote:

Hi there.
>
I am trying to find th best way (best UI control) to present hierarchical
data, nested tables. For example, I have a Employees table (id, name) and
EmployeesSales (id, idEmp, description, value).

I want to show this in an hierarchical mode, so I tried DataGrid control.
However, as I read somewhere, this DataGrid can only show one table at a
time, i.e., when I click "plus" sign, I have only a link to the
EmployeesSales table.
>
So my question is, wich UI control can I use? Could I consider Treeview?
Or
maybe try to find third party controls (unfortunatly, must be free).
>
Thanks in advance.
>
Regards,
>
Marco Pais

We use the controls from Infragistics, theirs grid support that. Take
a look at the examples:

http://samples.infragistics.com/2008.1/webfeaturebrowser/contents.aspx?showCode=True&t=WebGrid/HierarchicalGrid/HierarchicalGrid.aspx~srcview.aspx?path=../webfeaturebrowservb/WebGrid/HierarchicalGrid/HierarchicalGrid.src~srcview.aspx?path=WebGrid/HierarchicalGrid/HierarchicalGrid.src

[Greg]

Re: UI control to present hierarchical data

On May 5, 4:55 am, "Marco Pais" <marco.pais[at]gmail.comwrote:

Hi there.
>
I am trying to find th best way (best UI control) to present hierarchical
data, nested tables. For example, I have a Employees table (id, name) and
EmployeesSales (id, idEmp, description, value).
I want to show this in an hierarchical mode, so I tried DataGrid control.
However, as I read somewhere, this DataGrid can only show one table at a
time, i.e., when I click "plus" sign, I have only a link to the
EmployeesSales table.
>
So my question is, wich UI control can I use? Could I consider Treeview? Or
maybe try to find third party controls (unfortunatly, must be free).
>
Thanks in advance.
>
Regards,
>
Marco Pais

Marco,

Here is a free opensource project found on CodeProject:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/list/outlooklistcontrol.aspx

It might serve your purposes well, but not sure how well.
By the way, the DataGrid control does support master details view,
however, the DataGridView control does not.

cheers