What are the three main
differences between flexgrid control and dbgrid(Data bound Grid)
control
The Microsoft FlexGrid (MSFlexGrid) control displays and
operates on tabular data. It allows complete flexibility to
sort, merge, and format tables containing strings and pictures.
When bound to a Data control, MSFlexGrid displays read-only
data.Adaptation to existing Visual Basic code for the data-bound
grid (DBGrid).
dbgrid is A spreadsheet-like bound control that displays a
series of rows and columns representing records and fields from
a Recordset object.
The data grids are bound controls; that is, they require a data
source that actually connects to a database and retrieves their
data. And it seems that the root of the problem with DBGrid is
that there's no data source that can be readily included along
with the DBGrid control.
In Visual Basic, the solution is simply to include the Data
Control on the same form as DBGrid. But the Data Control is an
intrinsic control; it's unavailable to anything outside of the
Visual Basic environment itself. and VB 6.0 has a new set of
data controls (DataGrid, DataList, DataCombo, MSHFlexGrid,
MSFlexGrid) that once again are bound controls. Unlike DBGrid,
though, they support OLE DB, and therefore rely on the an ADO
Data Source (and in particular the ActiveX Data Objects Data
Control, or ADO DC) for data access. Unlike the Data Control,
the ADO
DC is a custom control (that is, an .OCX) that can be added to
any project. In short, if you add ADO DC to your project along
with the
DataGrid control.
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