Bind GridView to Hierarchical Data Automatically

The Kettic DataGridView Control offers the hierarchical data structure support, which is able to display hierarchical master-detail data. This grid component allows UI designer process the hierarchical data at design time as well as in run time with the C# API included in the grid control. It also supports process the data automatically in according to the data structures. Furthermore, the Kettic Data Grid control presents multiple child data views, which is similar with a tree hierarchy.

GridView component is capable of binding to hierarchical data automatically. To create hierarchical data automatically, we need set the property, AutoCreateHierarchy, as true to initialize the behavior. And the type of data source for the grid must be System.Data.DataSet and relations have been defined in the data structure at run time. After that, the hierarchy data can be created automatically. The following is an example that demonstrates how to generate hierarchy data automatically in a few simple steps.

private void BindToHierarchicalGridAutomatically_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    this.productsTableAdapter.Fill(this.nwindDataSet.Products);
    this.categoriesTableAdapter.Fill(this.nwindDataSet.Categories);
    ketticGridView1.AutoCreateHierarchy = true;
    ketticGridView1.DataSource = this.nwindDataSet;
    ketticGridView1.DataMember = "Categories";
}