Question

i created an usercontrol for datagridview.
I set it as gridview.autoGeneratecolumn = false; in the usercontrol.

Question: How do i add columns to the usercontrol in my UI form?

• I cannot add default columns to the usercontrol as other UI form might not using the same columns.

• If i do not put gridview.autoGeneratecolumn = false;, then the auto generated columns will be showing my database columns name instead of the name i want to display to the user.

Answer 1

Extending on the property above

private List<string> _list = new List<string>();
private List<string> ColList
{
    get { return _list; }
    set { _list = value; }
}

private DataGridViewTextBoxColumn AddColumns(string Name)
        {
            DataGridViewTextBoxColumn col = new DataGridViewTextBoxColumn()
            col.Name = Name;
            col.HeaderText = Name;
            col.HeaderCell.Style.WrapMode = DataGridViewTriState.NotSet;
            col.ToolTipText = Name;
            col.AutoSizeMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.ColumnHeader;            
            col.MinimumWidth = 80;
            col.DataPropertyName =Name;            
            return col;
        }

You can then loop through the ColumnList and Add and also set the basic properties for the columns

foreach(string s in ColList)
{ datagridview1.Columns.Add(AddColumns(s)); }