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The first two releases of the .NET Framework (.NET 1.0 and .NET 1.1) left a glaring gap in the data-binding picture. Although developers had a flexible, configurable model for linking almost any control to almost any data source, they didn’t have a practical way to display full tables of information. The only tool included for this purpose was the DataGrid control, which worked well for simple demonstrations but was woefully inadequate for real-world code. Most developers found that the DataGrid was awkward to use, inflexible, and almost impossible to customize. Oddly enough, the DataGrid lagged far behind its ASP.NET counterpart, making it more difficult to display rich data-bound tables in a Windows application than in a web page.
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(2006). The DataGridView. In: Pro .NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in C#. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0110-6_15
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