Question

How can I have a datagridview that will autogenerate a textbox instead of a label?

Answer 1

In short, you can’t. You could inherit from a gridview and implement it yourself. It could look something like this:

Public Class MyGrid Inherits GridView   Private Sub MyGrid_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs) Handles Me.RowDataBound   If Me.AutoGenerateColumns = True Then     If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then         For Each c As TableCell In e.Row.Cells             Dim tb As New TextBox()             tb.Text = c.Text             c.Controls.Clear()             c.Controls.Add(tb)         Next     End If     End If End Sub