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The DataGridView control is highly configurable and extensible, and it provides many properties, methods, and events to customize its appearance and behavior. When you want your Windows Forms application to display tabular data, consider using the DataGridView control before others (for example, DataGrid). If you are displaying a small grid of read-only values, or if you are enabling a user to edit a table with millions of records, the DataGridView control will provide you with a readily programmable, memory-efficient solution.
The DataGridView control replaces and adds functionality to the DataGrid control; however, the DataGrid control is retained for both backward compatibility and future use, if you choose. See below for details on the differences between the DataGrid and DataGridView controls.
| Differences between the DataGridView and DataGrid controls |
| Highlight of features |
| Structure of DGV |
| Architecture Elements |
| Cells and Bands |