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Saturday, 17 November 2012

How to show parent/child relation in windows DataGridView?

Today I am going to show you how to bind parent/child relation in windows form gridview. It’s very easy to show parent/child relation in grid using third party controls but I want to show relation without using additional controls. I found related help from internet but I like to show parent-child relation by adding DataSet relation on datacolums of DataTable.
C# Code:
       private void BindGridView()
        {
            // Create Tables
            DataTable tblCustomer = new DataTable("tblCustomer");
            DataTable tblOrder = new DataTable("tblOrder");

            // Create DataSet
            DataSet tblDataSet = new DataSet();

            // Create Columns and Add to Tables
            tblCustomer.Columns.Add("ID", typeof(int));
            tblCustomer.Columns.Add("CustomerName", typeof(string));
            tblOrder.Columns.Add("ID", typeof(int));
            tblOrder.Columns.Add("Order", typeof(string));
            tblOrder.Columns.Add("CustomerID", typeof(int));

            // Add Test Data
            tblCustomer.Rows.Add(1, "Bhaumik");
            tblCustomer.Rows.Add(2, "Ramesh");
            tblCustomer.Rows.Add(3, "Suresh");
            tblOrder.Rows.Add(1, "Order1.1", 1);
            tblOrder.Rows.Add(2, "Order1.2", 1);
            tblOrder.Rows.Add(3, "Order1.3", 1);
            tblOrder.Rows.Add(4, "Order2.1", 2);
            tblOrder.Rows.Add(5, "Order3.1", 3);
            tblOrder.Rows.Add(6, "Order3.2", 3);

            // Add Tables to DataSet
            tblDataSet.Tables.Add(tblCustomer);
            tblDataSet.Tables.Add(tblOrder);

            // Create Relation
            tblDataSet.Relations.Add("CustOrderRelation",
                tblCustomer.Columns["ID"], tblOrder.Columns["CustomerID"]);

            BindingSource bsCustomer = new BindingSource();
            bsCustomer.DataSource = tblDataSet;
            bsCustomer.DataMember = "tblCustomer";

            BindingSource bsOrder = new BindingSource();
            bsOrder.DataSource = bsCustomer;
            bsOrder.DataMember = "CustOrderRelation";

            // Bind Data to DataGridViews
            dgvCustomer.DataSource = bsCustomer;
            dgvOrder.DataSource = bsOrder;
        }

Demo:


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