C#/.NET how to highlight certain rows in DataGridView

Question

hello, i have a datagridview that is filled by setting its DataSource to a DataBinding.

now i want that certain rows in the datagridview have a different backgroundcolor according to some value in the row itself.

how can i accomplish this easily?

thanks!

Answer 1

There's a great example here.

The concept is that you subscribe to events from the grid. When a cell is filled, an event is fired and based upon the value you can format the cell etc.

Answer 2

In the CellFormatting event handler of your datagridview you can set the default backcolor for any row you want.

private void MyDataGridView_CellFormatting(object sender, DataGridViewCellFormattingEventArgs e)
    {

        if (e.RowIndex == rowIndexToHighlight)
        {
            e.CellStyle.BackColor = Color.Green;
        }

    }

Answer 3

You can use the RowPrePaint to change the color or style of the whole row