Hi All,I need to customise Win/UltraGrid so that it renders the layout shown in the attached screenshot. The key customisations of this layout, in what I believe to be ascending order of difficulty, are as follows:1) Extensive styling of cells within the 'Strike' column (differing for header and data cells), including thick vertical 'divider lines' along the sides of each cell.2) The Second column group header is customised to include a drop-down control.3) Row group headers are rendered & customised per column group.I've been making use of WPF extensively for the last few years, which makes such customisations easy. However, I need the performance of your WinForms grid, and would really appreciate some guidance as to whether and how the above can be achieved with WinGrid.Many thanks,James
Hi James,
I haven't had a chance to look into the layout questions of the WinGrid but I'm sure whether it is straight-forward or Creation/Draw Filter required, the desired layout can be achieved. I'm more curious about what performance hit the XamDataGrid caused that prompted the swap to WinForms. I've assisted with several trading applications over the years that used the wpf grid and while there were some hits in the beginning (several years ago) we ironed out those bumps and were able to squeeze some really nice performance out of the wpf grid. Are you using a current version or an older version? What is the specific performance experience you are seeing? If you aren't at liberty to discuss details here send me a note directly (mkraft@infragistics.com).
Hi Matthew,
Many thanks for your reply, and for your generous offer assist regarding WPF perf. However, we're now committed to using WinForms. We analysed most WPF grids on the market (yours being one of the best), however none could provide the desired scrolling speed (which needs to approach Excel-like speed/smoothness), given the rather antiquated workstations we'll be deploying to. On such hardware, the WPF visual tree is simply too heavy-duty for displaying large data sets (esp. with 100+ columns) - even when showing very simple data. Therefore, I would be profoundly grateful for guidance on this WinGrid query, as we do need to know if/how that layout can be achieved.Kind regards,James