Hi. This will be my very first VB program and will link to another software package that we are using (A CATI system). The company that puts the package out has written an OLE Reference set of functions to pass their data to a VB program.

What I need to be able to do is to display (read only) these variables (their contents) to the screen. They sent me a small VB macro for Excel which does exactly what I want; display the data in nice neat columns with headings at the top.

Which control should I use to do this? At first I thought a DataGrid, but that assumes that you have a database. An Array would work but how do you display the contents in columns? Or could I just use a TextBox? Can you get stuff in TextBoxes in columns? Help. Thank you.

I am new to VB.Net, but I have done lots of work with VB 6. I have found that most data grids do not require that you use a database. I also know that in VB.Net you can have the data grids bind to your objects. So you could either create an object structure for the data, and have the grid bind to it. Or you can probably populate the grid yourself. I am not sure if you can have a grid bind to an array.



John R Lick
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A VB.net datagrid can be databound to any object/class that implements the IEnumerable interface. Array's do this. Basically said: If you can "For..Each..Next" thru it, you can data bind it.

Peter
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