ResultSetTextBox

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Introduction

Hello pals. This is really a short article so I am gonna go straight to the point. I came with the idea of developing this simple control because I was developing an application where in one form I had to display data contained in a DataSet and didn't want to use a DataGrid for this purpose. After I did it, I thought it was sort of cool so I decided to share it with you. This is a picture of the control during runtime:

Displaying the data is very simple. Here's the snippet of code I use to load the DataSet. Currently, the control displays all DataTables in the DataSet.

private void btnOpen_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
   DataSet ds = new DataSet();
   ds.ReadXml("C:\\myFile.xml");
   this.resultSetTextBox1.DataSource = ds;
   this.resultSetTextBox1.DataBind();
}

The only change to this article is that, at first when I posted it, it did not include the source code. So here it is.

The control has several properties as:

• bool ShowTableNames: which decides whether to include the table names in the result sets.
• int DefaultColumnWidth: is the width for the columns and DataRow[Column]. If the width of one of the DataRow[Column]'s is wider than DefaultColumnWidth, this DataRow[Column] length is cut to DefaultColumnWidth - 2. This is simply to avoid the overlapping of one DataRow[Column] to the other DataRow[Column].

Well, that's all there's to it. I expect that you like it. All comments are welcome.

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