Makinde A. Israel

Makinde A. Israel

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How to do FullColumn Selection on a DataGridView with SelectioMode set to CellSelect

Nov 6 2015 2:02 AM
Good morning.
I am working on a winForm where I need to use DataGridView control to display data read from a user supplied txt file with no pre-knowledge of how it is formatted but using delimiters which will be supplied by the user(students). I set the datagridview's (dgView) SelectionMode to CellSelect and handle the ColumnHeaders_MouseClick event to provide the option for fullColumn Select as shown below:

private void dgView_ColumnHeaderMouseClick(object sender, DataGridViewCellMouseEventArgs e)
{
for each(DataGridViewRow row in dgView.Rows
{
dgView. Columns[e.ColumnIndex].Selected = true;
}
}

The Now thebis that when I check the dgView. SelectedColumns.Count it gives me zero(0) meaning that no Column was selected. please how do I get around this I need the SelectedColumn.Count to know how many columns was selected.

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