Data Grid view

Question

can anyone help how to select the multiple cells in datagridview through code, now i am setting selected property as true for each cell before

load the control. if once the control loaded it shows only one cell as selected cell.

Vasanth · Answer

Please add cell panting event , but its only one selected cell border color , private void dataGridView1_CellPainting( object sender, DataGridViewCellPaintingEventArgs e) { if (e.ColumnIndex == this .dataGridView1.CurrentCell.ColumnIndex && e.RowIndex == this .dataGridView1.CurrentCell.RowIndex) { e.Paint(e.CellBounds, DataGridViewPaintParts .All & ~ DataGridViewPaintParts .Border); using ( Pen p = new Pen ( Color .Black, 4)) { Rectangle rect = e.CellBounds; rect.Width -= 2; rect.Height -= 2; e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(p, rect); } e.Handled = true ; } } Try other option as below , here we using selectionchanged event and highligted bold for selected cell. private void dataGridView1_SelectionChanged( object sender, EventArgs e) { foreach ( DataGridViewRow row in this .dataGridView1.Rows) { foreach ( DataGridViewCell c in row.Cells) { c.Style = this .dataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle; } } DataGridViewCellStyle style = new DataGridViewCellStyle (); style.BackColor = Color .Red; style.Font = new Font ( "Courier New" , 14.4f, FontStyle .Bold); foreach ( DataGridViewCell cell in this .dataGridView1.SelectedCells) { cell.Style = style; } } Please mark as answer , if its helps you.

kombsh m · Answer

hi amit i need the help from your side without bounding the data source ,my target is draw the border for selected cells like the below example.

kombsh m · Answer

hi vasanth , In this way i can draw border for only one selected cell but here i need to draw border for all the selected cells.like the below image

Amit Choudhary · Answer

hi friend, the setting of selected cell's is only effective after the datasource is bound to the control so you have to have write add event handler for gridData_DataBindingComplete() event Here is the code: private string Selection_ColumnName = null ; private List Selection_CellValues = null ; public void SetSelectedValues( string ColumnName, List CellValues) { Selection_ColumnName = ColumnName; Selection_CellValues = CellValues; gridData.DataBindingComplete += new DataGridViewBindingCompleteEventHandler(gridData_DataBindingComplete); } private void gridData_DataBindingComplete( object sender, DataGridViewBindingCompleteEventArgs e) { bool CellFound = false ; for ( int ColumnIndex = 0 ; ColumnIndex { if (gridData.Columns[ 0 ].Name == Selection_ColumnName) { gridData.ClearSelection(); for ( int RowIndex = 0 ; RowIndex { foreach ( object CellValue in Selection_CellValues) { try { if (gridData.Rows[RowIndex].Cells[ColumnIndex].Value.ToString() == CellValue.ToString()) { gridData.Rows[RowIndex].Cells[ColumnIndex].Selected = true ; if (!CellFound) gridData.CurrentCell = gridData.SelectedCells[ 0 ]; CellFound = true ; } } catch { } } } break ; } } gridData.DataBindingComplete -= new DataGridViewBindingCompleteEventHandler(gridData_DataBindingComplete); } Please mark as answer if it helps.

kombsh m · Answer

thank u vasanth, i got in this way .i need one more help from your side. i would like to give the border line for the selected cells instead of give SelectionBackColor can u help me?

Vasanth · Answer

Initially just create one datagridview control and add the below code and you will find out your solution. [C# Code] private void Form1_Load( object sender, EventArgs e) { //Create temp datatable for bind values DataTable dtTemp = new DataTable (); DataRow dr; //create schema dtTemp.Columns.Add( "Name" ); dtTemp.Columns.Add( "City" ); dtTemp.Columns.Add( "State" ); //Add temp datas dr = dtTemp.NewRow(); dr[ "Name" ] = "AAA" ; dr[ "City" ] = "CAAA" ; dr[ "State" ] = "SAAA" ; dtTemp.Rows.Add(dr); dr = dtTemp.NewRow(); dr[ "Name" ] = "BBB" ; dr[ "City" ] = "CBBB" ; dr[ "State" ] = "SBBB" ; dtTemp.Rows.Add(dr); dr = dtTemp.NewRow(); dr[ "Name" ] = "CCC" ; dr[ "City" ] = "CCCC" ; dr[ "State" ] = "SCCC" ; dtTemp.Rows.Add(dr); dr = dtTemp.NewRow(); dr[ "Name" ] = "DDD" ; dr[ "City" ] = "CDDD" ; dr[ "State" ] = "SDDD" ; dtTemp.Rows.Add(dr); dr = dtTemp.NewRow(); dr[ "Name" ] = "EEE" ; dr[ "City" ] = "CEEE" ; dr[ "State" ] = "SEEE" ; dtTemp.Rows.Add(dr); //Bind the datasourse dataGridView1.DataSource = dtTemp; //Alter the propertise dataGridView1.SelectionMode = DataGridViewSelectionMode .CellSelect; dataGridView1.MultiSelect = true ; //If u want to dynamically select the cells , just update the below code dataGridView1[1,1].Selected = true ; dataGridView1[2, 1].Selected = true ; dataGridView1[0, 2].Selected = true ; dataGridView1[1, 2].Selected = true ; } If it helps you , please mark as answer.