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Asked: May 23, 20262026-05-23T04:15:23+00:00 2026-05-23T04:15:23+00:00

By default, the background of a DataGridView is a solid color. The gridlines stop

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By default, the background of a DataGridView is a solid color. The gridlines stop at the end of the grid of actual data leaving an ugly void in the remaining space of the DataGridView.

A perfect example of what I want is the gridlines viewed in Microsoft Excel.

How can I continue the gridlines past the datagrid itself to fill the DataGridView?

Note: VB.NET preferred, C# answers okay

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    2026-05-23T04:15:24+00:00Added an answer on May 23, 2026 at 4:15 am

    Handle the DataGridView.CellPainting event, because the DataGridView doesn’t support this out-of-the-box.

    http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/winforms/thread/2d91bed2-68e9-41f3-9f6e-73de193640e8/

    Also, if you want the background color to be the same as grid’s change it to white or something…

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