How to add a table control to the form?

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I want to add a table to the form and table contains 2 columns and 3 rows.the 3 rows are Name,Age and Place.In this table at run time i want to update values in the 2nd column for the respected rows. I want to add table like this

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For eg.In above image Name is the one of the table row item in column1 and in column2 first row contains value of Name.

How can i do it?

I tried GridView.But in GridView in design part we can only add columns not rows.. — Praveen Kumar, Aug 22 '12 at 06:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 22 '12 at 07:10

Create some kind of container class (that is some kind of collection) that stores your key-value pairs, and bind them to a DataGrid at runtime.

Quick'n'dirty example:

Class Container
    Inherits BindingList(Of Value)

    Class Value
        Public Property Key As String
        Public Property Value As Object
    End Class

    Public Sub New()
        Add(New Value With {.Key = "Name"})
        Add(New Value With {.Key = "Age"})
        Add(New Value With {.Key = "Place"})
    End Sub

    Default Public Overloads Property Item(ByVal key As String) As Object
        Get
            Return Me.FirstOrDefault(Function(v) v.Key = key)
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As Object)
            Dim v = Me.FirstOrDefault(Function(e) e.Key = key)
            If v Is Nothing Then
                Add(New Value With {.Key = key, .Value = value})
            Else
                v.Value = value
            End If
        End Set
    End Property

End Class

In your Form:

Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    Dim grd = New DataGrid With {.Dock = DockStyle.Fill}
    Controls.Add(grd)
    Dim container = New Container()

    grd.DataSource = container

    container("Age") = 12
    container("Place") = "Somewhere"
End Sub

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You then have to adjust the apperance of your DataGrid of course, it's up to you.

This way, the grid is bound to the container object, and you can read/change values easily.

This is not supported by the standard `DataGrid`, or any other standard WinForm control. But you could subclass the `DataGrid`, bind this grid in the constructor to a datasource and create a appropriate desginer component that will allow you to add elements to that datasource, but this kinda out of scope of this question/answer. — sloth, Aug 22 '12 at 07:26

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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Try these links These might be helpful

transpose/swap x,y axes in html table

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.3.2

http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/200312/post00920.html

Convert TD columns into TR rows

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered Aug 22 '12 at 07:10

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