DataGridView - how to set column width?

Question

Hello fellows,

I have a WinForms application with DataGridView control. My control has five columns (say "Name", "Address", "Phone" etc)

I am not happy with default column width. I want to have more control over column appearance. What I want is to be able to do one of the following:

• Set width of each column in percent
• Set width of each column in pixels
• Use some other best-practive method (make width to fit text etc)

Please suggest - which property to use and how.

Answer 1

You can use the DataGridViewColumn.Width property to do it:

DataGridViewColumn column = dataGridView.Columns[0];
column.ItemStyle.Width = 60;

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridviewcolumn.width.aspx

Answer 2

Regarding your final bullet

make width fit the text

You can experiment with the .AutoSizeMode of your DataGridViewColumn, setting it to one of these values:

None
AllCells
AllCellsExceptHeader
DisplayedCells
DisplayedCellsExceptHeader
ColumnHeader
Fill

More info on the MSDN page