Walter,

I stated in my last post that I was moving on and did not believe there was any value in discussing this topic any longer.

I'm only responding because you asked me a specific question.

I checked the link. I don't know if you tried to read the links that are referenced on this link. The original question asked about the Winforms datagrid. Some of the links provided as a response by the VB.NET team are no longer available. (These posts go back to 2002).

However, I was able to find what the DotNetJunkies article referred to. The content of that refers to the ASP.NET datagrid. The VB.NET team also referenced 'paging' in their response, which is a technique for ASP.NET datagrids. So while the user was asking about Winforms, I strongly suspect the response in general was directed towards the ASP.NET datagrid.

If that is the case, then I don't see how the link you provided is relevant to this discussion. I think I made it clear on more than one instance that I was referring to the Winforms .NET datagrid.

It goes without saying that the ASP.NET datagrid is very different from the Winforms datagrid. I would never make a comparison between the ASP.NET datagrid and the VFP grid. Yes, techniques are often employed with the ASP.NET to handle paging (articles and books written by authors like Dino Esposito, Donny Mack, and Doug Seven).

The reason I brought up a functional equivalent of dynamicforecolor() was to show that even when I implemented an override of the paint event and used reflection to call a custom function to determine whether a cell should be highlighted...I STILL saw no significant difference between the .NET datagrid and the VFP datagrid.

I truly believed that this first-hand example would have caused 'reflection' (no pun intended) on some of your prior statements.

I continue to maintain that general performance of the datagrid (in Winforms) is comparable to the VFP datagrid. I've done plenty of work in both. The VFP grid has tremendous capabilities, while the Winforms datagrid is more capable of being extended.

Kevin