Data Widgets is a set of six bound ActiveX (tm) Controls for Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 or higher and other ActiveX host environments. Featured is the DataGrid (tm), a fully editable data grid identical in look and feel to the Access grid. The DataGrid allows updating, adding and deletion of records, along with unbound columns. It also supports Bound, Virtual and AddItem modes. Other features include printing, exporting to HTML, saving/restoring grid layouts, and masked editing.
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Which Version of Data Widgets Is Right for Me?- Data Widgets 3.1 is a boxed product and natively supports OLE DB and ADO data sources featured in Visual Studio 6.0.
- Data Widgets 3.1 (CD Key) allows you to turn the Data Widgets 3.1 demo into a full working product with a key that you purchase from VBxtras.
Data Widgets 3.1 is a great collection of bound controls that makes our job, as programmers, simpler and improves the look and feel of applications, all in one full swoop. Data Widgets includes the Data Grid, a fully featured grid you can bind to a data control or use unbound. Your users can directly edit in the grid or you can use the grid as a way to select a record to fill inbound or unbound text boxes. The Data Grid is fast and easy to work with; you can use it with practically no code or you can get right in there and control its every move, if you have to. I admit it, I still use a data control or two; especially if the app just browses data. I usually throw a couple buttons on the form rather than make the actual data control visible - it's just too ugly for words and it doesn't do enough to deal with its own ugliness. Infragistics has given us two ways to enhance the appearance and functionality of the data control, the Enhanced Data Control and the Data Command Button. The Enhanced Data Control lets you and your users move around in your data, find specific data easily and create and return to a bookmark, all with no code. Along with the standard forwards/backwards buttons, the Enhanced Data Control sports buttons that will display a find dialog that gives your users a list of columns that you specify and that they can use to build search criteria. Once they've built their criteria they can find and repeat find to their hearts' content. They can even bookmark rows to return to later, and use a drop-down list to select which bookmark it will return to, all with no code. Often you're presented with a situation where you've got a lookup table with one or more values to display, and a different value that actually gets stored in the database. Data Combo adroitly handles this by binding to different data sources for the list portion and the text portion. You can display multiple columns in the list portion of the control to make reading the data easier for your users. Infragistics also adopted the Objects and Collections approach to their controls so you'll find yourself right at home with them. Buy Data Widgets today; it'll make developing database apps a snap. Guaranteed!
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