Question

I am using a datasource to populate my datagridview with the data. However, im trying to find a way for the user to be able to hide columns that he does not want to see.

I am able to hide and show columns before the program runs using:

[Browsable(false)]
public string URL
{
    get
    {
        return this._URL;
    }
    set
    {
        this._URL = value;
        this.RaisePropertyChnaged("URL");
    }
}

I cannot seem to figure out how to change the [Browsable(false)] at run time.

Any ideas how I could accomplish this?

Basically, I want to bind an “on/off” to a menu.

Apologies if im not using the right terminology when explaining my problem, I am self taught and started a few weeks ago – so still very newbie 🙂

Edit:

Cant hide the column because when i run my update function all columns appear again. Here is my function for updating:

    private void UpdateResults()
    {
        Invoke(new MethodInvoker(
                       delegate
                       {
                           this.dgvResults.SuspendLayout();
                           this.dgvResults.DataSource = null;
                           this.dgvResults.DataSource = this._mySource;
                           this.dgvResults.ResumeLayout();
                           this.dgvResults.Refresh();
                       }
                       ));
    }

Answer 1

At run time, you can just specify the column as being invisible:

dgv.Columns["ColumnName"].Visible = false;