How To: Hiding a Column in a DataBound GridView

As obvious as you would think this would be, it turns out that in order to hide column in a GridView, you need to go through a pretty unintuitive step. (The Windows Form Version is much more flexible). Here I'll show you how.

How do you hide a column for a DataBound GridView

I found this solution on http://www.beansoftware.com/ASP.NET-Tutorials/GridView-Hidden-Column.aspx  and it was not as easy to find as you would think.  I saw people suggesting the obvious like set the Visible property of the Column to false or  (the less obvious)  set the width of the column to 0.  None of these work for a DataBound GridView.

The way to hide a column in a DataBound GridView is to trap the RowCreated Event and set a Cell inside the column of the row to Visible = false. Nice!

protected void GridView1_RowCreated(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{

//  hide a cell in the column to hide column 1
  e.Row.Cells[1].Visible = false;
}