Everything in our project is being added directly to the grid, not through the data source.  We have an UltraDataSource defined, but it is just used to lay out the columns in the grid.  I really haven't dealt with the datasource.  We fill the grid based on our own object model.  Is this a completely inappropriate way to use the grid? 

How do I add rows to the data source rather than directly to the grid?  Nothing's jumping out at me in the datasource's intellisense.

 Thanks,

~Karen

Hi Karen,

kcrab2000 said:

Everything in our project is being added directly to the grid, not through the data source.  We have an UltraDataSource defined, but it is just used to lay out the columns in the grid.  I really haven't dealt with the datasource.  We fill the grid based on our own object model.  Is this a completely inappropriate way to use the grid? 

I'm not really clear on what you mean by this, so it's hard to say if it's "inappropriate". It sounds like you are just using the grid to display essentially unbound data and are therefore using the UltraDataSource as your grid's data source.  If that's the case, there's certainly nothing wrong with that - that's what UltraDataSource is for. :)

kcrab2000 said:

How do I add rows to the data source rather than directly to the grid?  Nothing's jumping out at me in the datasource's intellisense.

To add a row to the UltraDataSource, you have to use the Add method on the Rows collection. For a root-level row, this is pretty easy: 

this.ultraDataSource1.Rows.Add(...);

For a child row, you have to get the parent row and use the GetChildRows method to get the collection of child rows. 

this.ultraDataSource1.Rows[0].GetChildRows("My Child Band").Add(...);

I have the opposite problem.  I'm using a BindingNavigator with UltraGrid bound to a datasource.  When I click the BindingNavigator's "Add" button, a new row is added, the grid scrolls to the last record, but the highlighted, newly added row is not actually the grid's active row.  How do I make the newly added row the grid's active row?  I want to do this:

        private void navAddNew_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            ultraGrid.ActiveCell = ultraGrid.ActiveRow.Cells["TransactionID"];
            ultraGrid.PerformAction(Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.UltraGridAction.EnterEditMode, false, false);
        }
 

However, the highlighted, new row is not the active row.