Question

How do you avoid using dataGrid.Rows[x].Cells[y].Value of a data grid when accessing their values? I want to use descriptive names to refer to cell values, and not indices.

Answer 1

What would be a descriptive name for the nth item in Rows? I think you’re stuck with using a 0-based index since Rows doesn’t have a string-based indexer.

Once you have a DataGridViewRow you can index into the cells using a string value:

foreach (var row in dataGrid.Rows) {
    var cell = row.Cells["someColumn"];
}