Manipulate data with VB6's new grid control
Stan Schultes, Chris Barlow · 1998
WHAT YOU NEED VB6 Professional or Enterprise Edition the provided controls are much more functional straight out of the box, including tight integration with the Visual Studio development environment. Don’t believe us? Then watch this! This column focuses on the new VB6 control called MSHFlexGrid. This hierarchical grid control offers developers an easy means of implementing data viewing and manipulation similar to a spreadsheet. VideoSoft developed the VB6 flex grid controls for Microsoft. The versions included with VB6, without some of the enhanced functionality of commercial versions (such as VideoSoft’s VSFlexGrid or Janus Systems’ GridEX), offer developers a powerful yet simple way to display and manipulate tabular data. MSFlexGrid, which comes with versions of VB prior to VB6, offers entry-level grid control capability. The new MSHFlexGrid integrates tightly with the VB6 development environment and can display hierarchical recordsets. A hierarchical recordset is an advanced concept that allows a recordset to contain another recordset within a field. Picture this by envisioning a data grid that contains another grid in one of its cells. We won’t demonstrate hierarchical data display in this column, but instead will focus on how the MSHFlexGrid works within VB6’s new data environment.