How do I handle an event in C# based on a cell click in a DataGridView?

Question

FYI, I looked at existing postings and I did not find exactly what I needed.

I am using Visual Studio 2008 to write a C# Windows Forms program. I have a DataGridView object that displays data from a table. When a user clicks on a cell I want to be able to grab the contents of that cell.

How do get an action to take place whenever there is a click on any cell in the datagridview. If the user clicks on the same cell 5 times in a row, I want the action to happen five times.

I am not even sure what the name of the event handler would be.

I tried the following, but it didn't work.

This was the code on the FormName.cs file:

private void DATASOURCEDataGridView_CellContentClick(object sender, 
           DataGridViewCellEventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show("clicked");
}

This was the code on the FormName.Designer.cs File:

this.DATASOURCEDataGridView.CellContentClick += 
    new System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCellEventHandler(
        this.DATASOURCEDataGridView_CellContentClick);

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

Use the CellClickedEvent:

 private void dataGridView1_CellClick(object sender, DataGridViewCellEventArgs e)
        {
          MessageBox.Show(dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[e.ColumnIndex].Value.ToString());
        }