How Can I Draw Table In C# Without Datagrid View

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Hello. I need to draw a report in c# win forms app. But i am not allowed to use grids or other controls, all i can do is Graphic drawing. So any help or suggestion? The table is so complex and here is printscreen. http://prntscr.com/7hlgbd[^]

Posted 16-Jun-15 2:58am

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Updated 16-Jun-15 3:04am

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V. 16-Jun-15 9:12am

what have you tried? Where are you stuck?
Basically you need a panel on which you use the Graphics object to paint lines and text on...

LLLLGGGG 16-Jun-15 9:20am

You have to use GDI+ and make an image with all your information on it, but, in my opinion, it's annoying from both developer and final user points of view

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-16T03:18:00

It's not complex: It you are limited to Drawing only, then first set up a Panel (or similar) to draw onto, and handle its Paint event.

Then write a method that takes a DataRow and a Graphics context, and a Y offset. Call it repeatedly for each row in the DataTable.

Inside the method you need to create RectangleF objects for each cell in the row and just call Graphics.DrawText[^], passing it the RectangleF and the cell contents as a string.

Try it: It's really not that complex for a "fixed" table report - it only gets complex if you need to be flexible with the cell count, sizes and location, or text wrapping / ellipsis generation.