iGrid.NET Control Tour - Cell Grouping

The iGrid.NET control allows you to group its cells. In iGrid.NET, you can do it using 3 different ways.

First, you can group rows when you drag and drop a column header into the iGrid.NET group box (or imitate it in code). Automatic group rows are created in this case by iGrid:

The second way is similar to the first but you create group rows manually. A manual group row does not have a special vertical band attached to it at left like in automatic group rows (this band is used to designate the group for a particular automatic group row).

You can use this feature to visually create sections of rows with similar or equal values. The following screenshot demonstrates how we use manual group rows in the iGrid.NET Demo application to separate sample groups:

Manual group rows can be helpful in many cases. For instance, you can create custom subtotal rows with the help of them:

And the last way of cell grouping in iGrid.NET is row text. It looks like message preview in MS Outlook, when a combined cell with text is displayed under normal cells inside a row: