Question

How to best fit all the columns in a grid control when form is loaded. I do have a button as shown in the following picture to do that when i right click the header of the grid control, but as opposed to this I want this event to be fired automatically when the form is loaded. I don’t want to do this by right clicking the header of the grid control and than clicking the Best Fit(all columns) button to best fit all the columns.

Answer 1

This is how I do it.

if (view is GridView)
{
   // auto best fit...
   (view as GridView).BestFitMaxRowCount = 5000;   // just to avoid to many compares
   (view as GridView).BestFitColumns();
   foreach (GridColumn item in (view as GridView).Columns) // reduce the width of very wide columns
   {
      item.Width = (item.Width > 1000) ? 1000 : item.Width;
   }
}