DataGrid - not quite what you want...

The specification of database "views" seems to take no time - auto-everything on the columns, sort, filter, double-click to activate - no edit etc. Unfortunately implementing this in .NET seems somewhat more tricky. The DataGrid control looks nice and in VB with some "drag-and-drop" you can quickly get contents - but to give it the feature list from the spec. takes some doing.

We've looked at various 'commercial' offerings and haven't found the ideal match. We wanted 'paging' and that isn't offered - not for winforms. So, to a degree, we've written it ourselves - taken the DataGrid and added auto size, sort, read-only, combo-box columns etc. Not a finished work but goes to show one of the good features of .NET - you can build on top of existing functionality very easily.