Normally, a record is displayed in a single row in the grid. If the grid is not wide enough to display all of the columns in the record, a horizontal scroll bar automatically appears to enable users to scroll columns in and out of view. For discussion purposes, the following will be distinguished:

• A line in a grid is a single physical row of cells displayed in the grid. Do not confuse this with a line of text inside a grid cell; depending upon the settings of the RowHeight and WrapText properties, data in a grid cell may be displayed in multiple lines of text.
• A row in a grid is used to display a single record. A row may contain multiple lines or multiple physical rows.

Setting the DataView property to DataViewEnum.MultipleLines will display every field of data in the dataset in the available grid area. If the dataset contains more fields than can fit in the grid area, then a single record will span multiple lines. This enables the end user to simultaneously view all of the columns (fields) of a record within the width of the grid without scrolling horizontally:

You can adjust resulting column layout at either design time or run time by changing the widths and orders of the columns. When changing the width of a column, the grid will only increase the size of the column at the expense of the other columns in the line. Unlike previous versions of the grid, the columns will not wrap to another line if a column is resized.

To change the order of the columns while in MultipleLine view, click and drag the column header to the new position. A red arrow should indicate where the column is to be placed. After the column has been dropped, the grid will reposition the columns accordingly.

Note that you can specify a multiple line mode in which the grid does scroll horizontally by setting the DataView property to DataViewEnum.MultipleLinesFixed, see Multiple Line Fixed Data Display for more information.