how do I host a control in a DataGridViewCell for displaying as well as editing?

Question

I\'ve seen How to: Host Controls in Windows Forms DataGridView Cells which explains how to host a control for editing a cell in a DataGridView. But how can I host a control for

Answer 1

As per your "UPDATE", creating a custom DataGridViewCell is the way this is done. I've done it, and it doesn't require that much modification from the example code available from the MSDN. In my case, I needed a bunch of custom editing controls, so I ended up inheriting from DataGridViewTextBoxCell and DataGridViewColumn. I inserted into my class (the one inherited from DataGridViewTextBoxCell) a new custom control which implemented IDataGridViewEditingControl, and it all just worked.

I suppose that in your case, you could write a PanelDataGridViewCell which would contain a control MyPanelControl which would inherit from Panel and implement IDataGridViewEditingControl.