Question

I’m working on an application that gets content from feeds in C#. This content should then be displayed on the form.

My question is what control should I use to hold this data? Should I be creating a new label (dynamically) for each item? Someone suggested to me that I should use a RichTextBox but this content shouldn’t be editable.

If it helps, I’m a web developer. I’d normally output my content in HTML and would use headings, paragraphs etc. for my content. Am I looking at this the wrong way?

If this seems like a very basic question, it probably is. I’m very new to Windows Forms.

Thanks, Ross

Answer 1

DataGridView is good enough for this. See this example. Of course you can improve on look and feel 🙂

public partial class Form1 : Form {     public Form1()     {         InitializeComponent();          List<Item> items = new List<Item>();          items.Add(new Item('item 1'));         items.Add(new Item('item 2'));         items.Add(new Item('item 3'));         items.Add(new Item('item 4'));           dataGridView1.DataSource = items;     } } class Item {     public string ItemName { get; set; }     public Item(string name)     {         ItemName = name;     }  }