What is the DataGridView Differences between the DataGridView and DataGrid controls Highlight of features Structure of DGV Architecture Elements Cells and Bands DataGridViewCell How a DataGridViewCell works DataGridViewColumn DataGridView Editing Controls DataGridViewRow Out of the box column/cell types DataGridViewTextBoxColumn DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn DataGridViewImageColumn DataGridViewButtonColumn DataGridViewComboBoxColumn DataErrors and the combo box column DataGridViewLinkColumn Working with Data Data Entry and Validation Events Order of Validation Events Validating Data Displaying error information Data Entry in the New Row Displaying the Row for New Records Populating the Row for New Records with Default Data The Rows Collection and the New Row Typing in the New Row Visual Customization of the Row for New Records Sorting the New Row Other Notes on the Row for New Records Virtual Mode Working with Null values NullValue DataSourceNullValue DataError event DataError Event for Edit Operations DataError Contexts Unbound Bound Valid Data Sources List Change Notification Object Change Notification Virtual Mixed mode Bound and Unbound Styling The DataGridViewCellStyle Class Using DataGridViewCellStyle Objects Style Inheritance Setting Styles Dynamically Custom painting Paint Parts Row Pre Paint and Post Paint Autosizing Sizing Options in the Windows Forms DataGridView Control Resizing with the Mouse Automatic Sizing Programmatic Resizing Customizing Content-based Sizing Behavior Content-based Sizing Options Selection modes Programmatic Selection Scrolling Scroll event Scroll bars Scrolling Properties Sorting Programmatic Sorting Custom Sorting Border styles Standard Border Styles Advanced Border Styles Enter-Edit modes Clipboard copy modes Frozen columns/rows Implementing Custom cells and editing controls/cells IDataGridViewEditingControl IDataGridViewEditingCell Virtual mode Bound Mode and Virtual Mode Supplementing Bound Mode Replacing Bound Mode Virtual-Mode Events Best Practices in Virtual Mode Capacity Best Practices Using Cell Styles Efficiently Using Shortcut Menus Efficiently Using Automatic Resizing Efficiently Using the Selected Cells, Rows, and Columns Collections Efficiently Using Shared Rows Preventing Rows from Becoming Unshared How do I prevent a particular cell from being editable? How do I disable a cell? How do I restrict user from setting focus to a specific cell? How do I show controls in all cells regardless of edit? Why does the cell text show up with square characters where they should be new lines? How do I show icon and text in the same cell? How do I hide a column? How do I prevent the user from sorting on a column? Databound DataGridView Custom Sorting Using the SortCompare Event Custom Sorting Using the IComparer Interface How do I hook up events on the editing control? When should I remove event handlers from the editing control? How do I handle the SelectedIndexChanged event? How do I perform drag and drop reorder of rows? How do I make the last column wide enough to occupy all the remaining client area of the grid? How do I have the cell text wrap? How do I make the image column not show any images? How do I enable typing in the combo box cell? How do I have a combo box column display a sub set of data based upon the value of a different combo box column? How do I show the error icon when the user is editing the cell? How do I show unbound data along with bound data? How do I show data that comes from two tables? How do I show master-details? How do I show master-details in the same DataGridView? How do I prevent sorting? How do I commit the data to the database when clicking on a toolstrip button? How do I display a confirmation dialog when the user tries to delete a row?