One of the Hierarchical DataGridView possibilities is to view hierarchical data with the full control of specifying how the data inside every single cell will be displayed. The control allows the usage of CheckBoxes, ComboBoxes, links, Buttons, calendars ...

One of the features of this control is in-cell data editing. The control allows data editing even in the column which contains plus and minus signs. After adding a single line or deleting it, the control can be automatically refreshed in order to display newly entered data in the respective place within the hierarchy. The operations of changing, adding and deleting are allowed even in the case when the control does not display hierarchical data.

By setting up the certain properties, the user has the full control over the way how data will be displayed inside Hierarchical DataGridView control. In that process a special attention is paid to the adjustment of displaying column that contains plus and minus signs needed for browsing through the hierarchy.

Hierarchical DataGridView can be used even in the situations when there is no need to display hierarchy. By simple setting up of the certain property, data will not be displayed in hierarchical form, but in normal, table-shaped (flat) form. In this case the control is functioning almost identically as the Microsoft DataGridView control.

Hierarchical DataGridView control is created for displaying the relatively small amount of hierarchically organized data. With this control user does not need to write a single line of code to display data in a hierarchical form – all that he needs to do is to change the respective property.

The user has the possibility to adjust sorting of data displayed inside this control. At this point it is important to emphasize that the sorting, if made according to the column in which the hierarchy is displayed, considers the level at which the single data is located. In that way sorting is functioning properly even in those situations in which the classic sorting does not give expected results.

Despite the fact that displayed hierarchical data inside Hierarchical DataGridView control is taken from some other database, the user has a full freedom of adding the additional columns in which displayed data is not originally located in the data source. This means that the control allows adding of columns for displaying the most various data that is entirely independent on the main data source.