Presenting the DataGridViewLargeTextBoxCell

Posted by timvw on January 27, 2007 Leave a comment (1) Go to comments

Today i decided to experiment a bit with custom DataGridViewCell implementations. If you insert large text into a DataGridView it will (at best) wrap the text. I wanted my DataGridView to behave like Excel so that the whole text is displayed. Here are a couple of screenshots of the result:

the large text flows over it's surrounding columns
the editingcontrol is resized to fit the complete text

Feel free to download CustomDataGridViewCells.zip.

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  1. Robert Gowland August 1, 2008 at 23:11

    Hey Tim,

    Thanks for the head start on this widget. I’ve added to your work for a recent project and thought you might like to see what I’ve done.

    http://www.gowland.ca/datagridviewspanningtextboxcell

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