It was designed to be a drop-in replacement for the Microsoft FlexGrid control, or Hierarchical FlexGrid, but redraw much faster and take up much fewer system resources. Also, built-in functions to print the grid (with preview), save the contents to a CSV file, and perform inline editing.
As a reference: I had an application using the MS grid control displaying about 400 data values - some text, some colors - which updated every 10 seconds. We got a faster network connection to the devices we read the data from, and started to get updates every 1 second. With the first set of these (about 30 data values) updating every 1 second, the application was using ~23-28% CPU resources! So, my coworker and I decided to scrap the MS grid and write our own from scratch. Now, using this grid, with all 400 values updating every 1 second, the application uses ~2-3% CPU resources.
Basic Sample:
Property Pages with default settings:
Reference application:
Current Version: 1.0.1 Date: 01 Jul 2008 Changelog
Download the Grid Control Setup, which includes the control and a test application, here. MD5Sum here.
Download the Visual Basic source files here.
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