Re: Survey of best bound data grid control...
Date: 1995/09/15
Message-ID: <43ciu9$e7k_at_usenet1.interramp.com>#1/1
In article <NEWTNews.811111957.27201.Postmaster_at_czeng.roch875.mc.xerox.com>, Postmaster_at_czeng.roch875.mc.xerox.com says:
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>Dear Netters:
>
>We are conducting a survey of bound data grid controls for VB and would
>like your input. In particular, we would like information on the best
>bound grid control for connecting to Oracle databases. If you have some
>working experience with some of the following controls (or others) please
>mail your opinions and a summary of the products will be posted to this group.
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>EnQuiry from Crescent Inc.
>Spread/VBX from Farpoint Inc.
>TrueGrid from Apex Inc.
>DataDirect MultiLink/VB from Intersolv Inc.
>DataGrid from Sheridan Data Widgets, Inc.
>(others)
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>What we are looking for is the ability to at least perform the following
>functions:
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>1. Record Locking
>2. Transaction processing
>3. Bound directly to database tables
>4. Indexing
>5. Preserve integrity
>6. Fast data access
>7. Many events and properties
>8. Ability to change grid appearance
>9. Ability to extract subsets of the data
>10. Inserts, deletes, updates, etc.
First of all most of these are a function of the underlying database control and underneath that the underlying database access mechanism, and underneath that the underlying database. The grid has nothing to do with Indexing and Transaction processing.
That said:
>EnQuiry from Crescent Inc.
Never used it.
>Spread/VBX from Farpoint Inc.
Overkill for most data access applications. Grid/VBX is a
stripped down version and is pretty lame.
>TrueGrid from Apex Inc.
Best overall grid.
>DataDirect MultiLink/VB from Intersolv Inc.
Never used it
>DataGrid from Sheridan Data Widgets, Inc.
Not nearly as good as TrueGrid with the exception that it
gives better visual clues when editing records. It does not
give nearly as much control over the grid appearance as TrueGrid.
John
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Received on Fri Sep 15 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST