datagridview

How can I simulate clicking on a new row in a databound dataGridView in a button click handler?

I have a databound dataGridView. When I click on the new row the DefaultValuesNeeded event is fired and the row is populated with my default values. If I then hit escape, the new row will be deleted. How can I achieve the same behavior from a button click event handler? That is, the click event should mimic what occurs by clicking on...

Refreshing DataGridView bindings to a list when a row is deleted

I have a WinForm app with multiple DataGridViews bound to SortableBindingLists. Under some circumstances, I need to programmatically delete an item from the list that grid is bound to. I can't seem to get the DGV to recognize that it's data has changed, or, specifically, that it has fewer rows. I'm calling dataGridView1.Invalidate(), a...

DataGridView Object Databinding Issue "Index -1 does not have a value"

I am using a set of DataGridViews (dgv) to display a class's members via properties. I use the dgv so that the user can edit the value of the member right in the view (so I dont have to display a form or a textbox for editing that value). The structure of the class I am displaying is as follows Class1 (Displayed in a list view) ...

Multi-threading the formatting of datagridview rows?

I've read a number of examples on using BackgroundWorker objects to handle executing time-intensive tasks which generate results which are used to populate a DataGridView. However in my case it seems as though the act of populating the DataGridView is what's taking the most time. I'm wondering if this is because I need to format the re...

How to implement autoscroll in DataGridView?

I have datagridview that has 25 to 100 rows. I am performing a task in seperate thread .Each row depicts a single task. I am selecting the row on which task is performing, if suppose the row is 15 which is invisible then I want to move that row to the visible area. It will autoscroll to the selected row.. ...

Converting a DataGridViewRow to a DataRow

I've seen solutions to this else where, but they all use the idea of setting a DataRowView equal to my DataGridViewRow.DataBoundItem, then using the DataRowView.Row property (In my code below). Here's my code: Dim tblTemp As New DataTable() Dim row As Windows.Forms.DataGridViewRow Dim rowView As DataRowView For Each row In grdLabels.S...

some of my class<T>'s members don't turn up on datagridview bound to BindingList<T>

Hi, I have a class public class ANote{ public string NoteId = ""; public string Note = ""; public string NoteCollector = ""; public DateTime NoteCollectionDate = DateTime.MinValue; public string NoteCollectionDay { get { return NoteCollectionDate.toString("MM/dd/yyyy") ; } } public string NoteCollectionTime { get { return return NoteCo...

Custom WinForms DataGridView issues with adding columns

Hello everyone, I'm working on creating a custom winforms datagridview control that inherits the built in DataGridView control. I'm having an issue with the Columns property, the property is set to as ReadOnly so I can't edit any information in it and need to add columns to the datagrid. If you look at the property outside of my custo...

Why does converting a datasource to a datatable prevent formating

I have come accross a strange problem that can be illustrated using the 2 seperate code blocks below. If i use the first block, you can clearly see that column 5 has a currency format applied to it. Using the second block where the only difference is that the string array is added to a datatable and then used as the datasource -> no ...

Hosting custom control in DataGridView - C# WinForm

I looked at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7tas5c80.aspx for reference and it makes sense as far as editable column goes. The question is how do I host a "view only" custom control in a DataGridView (WinForm and C#)? ...

c# How to hide a row in a DataGridView with DataSource

I have a datasource (BindingList) with many Users, but there are some users I don't want to display in my DataGridView. Is it possible to hide them. I can't find events that works. RowsAdded sometimes hides worng rows. ...

Why doesn't this subroutine work? (vb.net DataGridView oddity)

For Each row As DataGridViewRow In DGV.Rows DGV.Rows.RemoveAt(CInt(row.Index.ToString)) Next The above code will remove every other row For i As Integer = 0 To 7 Step 1 For Each row As DataGridViewRow In DGV.Rows DGV.Rows.RemoveAt(CInt(row.Index.ToString)) ...

color of row divider in datagridview

Hi I have a winforms (c#) datagridview form where I can set the divider between rows with row.DividerHeight = 1 But I would like to change the color of the dividerline, to lets say Color.Red, how would I do that? I dont want to change the background color of the cell. ...

DataGrid using SQLDataAdapter Update Problem

I have a nice litte DataGridView, which gets loaded/populated by a button and a SQLDataAdapter and the corresponding saveButton. private void loadButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { String connString = conStringComboBox.Text; String query = queryStringComboBox.Text; dAdapter = new SqlDataAdapter(query, connString); ...

Make Vertical Scrollbar in DataGridView not Snap to Cell Top

So, I have a DataGridView that has multi-line data. I set the default cell style to have wrap turned on for cells so that the multi-line data is displayed rather than it all being on one line. However, when the data is larger than the DataGridView height the vertical scroll doesn't really work well. It snaps to the top of the cells su...

Is there a better way of updating a data grid then just adding and removing the datasource?

I have a List collection where UserPropDef is a custom class with a few public properties. I want to display the contents of this list in a DataGrid. So I set the DataGrid.DataSource property of my grid to the list and it displays the contents just as I want. Now if I add or remove items from the list I want the DataGrid to update. I ca...

Need to add selected column from datagridview1 to datagridview2

I need to add select column fully from one datagrid to another datagrid 1.need how to select from datagrid1 2.how to display in another datagrid2 ...

Datagridview with sorted EntitySet<T>? (.NET 3.5)

I'm hoping there's a simple answer to this one I've missed in hours of Googling... I have a DataGridView which needs to display and add/delete/edit records from a database. I'm using the Entity Framework, so records are initially EntitySet. Attempt One BindingSource has facilities for sorting, but oh... they don't seem to actually ...

DataGridView VirtualMode

Weird thing happened to me ;) I set the DataGridView.VirtualMode property to true, handle the CellValueNeeded event, but as I noticed it fires for every row from the database. For example, I have a table with 300.000 records and the event fires for each one of them. Has anyone got a clue why this happens? ...

Can I page through grouped data in DataGridView?

I have a simple VB.NET 2008 app that helps users to edit fields in the database. Simple enough as a first "real" project in .NET, right? For one table, I am currently using a DataGridView so it can be edited straight up. However, instead of offering the user the entire table, I'd like to group the data by the 'CompanyNumber' column and ...