The VSFlexGrid control is a powerful, full-featured grid. It provides new ways to display, edit, format, organize, summarize, and print tabular data. The VSFlexGrid control was designed to be used either in unbound mode, where the grid "owns" the data, or in data-bound mode, where the grid is used to view and edit data that that belongs to a database. VSFlexGrid 8.0 ships with three versions of the VSFlexGrid control.

Each version has its own OCX file and supports a different type of data binding:

vsflex8.ocx
This version provides support for ADO/OLEDB data Binding, the latest data binding standard from Microsoft. It requires ADO to be installed on the Computer.

vsflex8d.ocx
This version provides support for DAO data binding, the more traditional type of data binding supported by Visual Basic's built-in Data Control.

vsflex8l.ocx
This version has no support for data-binding. Use it when your application does not require data-binding and you want to reduce the number of components your application depends on.

vsflex8u.ocx
This is a Unicode version that provides support for ADO/OLEDB data binding. It only runs on Windows NT systems.

vsflex8n.ocx
This file contains a Unicode version of the VSFlexGrid Light control.

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