microsoft / microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml

Data Grid View

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Description

### Issue type

enhancement

### Which version of the app?

WinUI 3 Gallery

### Description

We need DataGridView the WinUI in its base form is pretty much unusable. Any framework after the MFC or WinForms - look good but there is a fewer and fewer basic elements. It is like FiAtHo - FINISH AT HOME. So when someone need an app, where to display tabular data - I must use Windows Forms - unless I'm willing to design my own DataGridView. So if I have to design my own framwerk why should I use it at all ??? !!! Why event spent time with Windows at all. There is no point -- Bill Gates -- knew that in order to gain market share -- the platform must have apps like no other. That people must wait in line to get new windows !

And more .... where is the WinUI 3 form designer -- in 1990s Visual basic or Visual FoxPro -- much better and faster development.

1) Focus on one platform -- support Windows 11 and Windows 11 only , must the fastest and most beautiful system ever

2) Bring the UI to mature state
3) Include every control possible ( especially complex ones - like DataGridView )
4) Include every component possible from every framework in the past - ReportDesigner, MapControl, VideoControl, WebView & etc.
5) Drag and drop designer -- i should be able design simple app in 10 minutes -- like in VB, FoxPro or Access -- even the stupid access in terms of developmental design has more value and is more effective the current MS pro dev products
6) Make deployment easy -- Click Once is way to go
7) Forget the stupid APP ALIASES -- WTF -- who came up with that nonsense, so so incompetent nonsense

Visual studio and the stolen Visual Studio Code -- that is what keeps me on MS platform I was about to go Linux only -- VS22 and Windows Forms -- kept me on Windows -- because developing is so fast that I can literal code same speed as customers coming with their ideas -- and the C3 ecostyem has a lot built in.

SO MAKE THE WIN UI LONG TERM UI AND PORT EVERYTHING TO IT -=- ALL NATIVE MICROSOFT ELEMENTS, TRUSTED AND SAFE AND SUPPER SUPPER FAST -=- MAKE DEVS LOVE IT -=- MAKE PEOPLE WANT TO HAVE IT -=- SOMETHING YOU CANT DO ON THE WEB OR YOUR PHONE

DONT BE STUPID, LERN FROM THE PAST DONT REINVENT WHEEL AFTER HALF CENTURY EXPERIENCE. MAKE IT RUN ON COMPUTERS LIKE Raspery PI SUPER FAST.

WINDOWS SHOULD BE ASSEMBLER ONLY -- WHY WINDOWS 3.1 FIT ON 5 FDD DISKS AND HAD SAME FUNCTIONALITY LIKE THE W11 -- BETTER UI TOO !!

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Begin by narrowing the request to a specific WinUI 3 Gallery DataGridView capability and reviewing the existing control surface; define acceptance criteria for the chosen scope before implementation. Done requires an agreed, testable feature rather than the broad platform and tooling wishlist.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
12/100

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