Question

I have a dataGridView with different columns. One of them is a ComboBoxColumn with default selections (English, German, Chinese…). I add new Rows programmatically to my datagridview.

dataGridView1.Rows.Add(sn, givenName, mail, department, ToDo);

the fifth column is my ComboBoxColumn where currently is written “ToDo”.
I would like to say which of my comboBoxItems should be selected. For example like this:

dataGridView1.Rows.Add(sn, givenName, mail, department, 1);

Now should be German selected in my comboBox. I set the Items at Form1.designer.cs.

Later on I would like to get the values which Item is selected for each Row.

Answer 1

You should be able to say:

// Assuming your combo box column is named 'comboBoxColumn1'
dataGridView1.Rows.Add(sn, givenName, mail, department, comboBoxColumn1.Items[1]);

See this MSDN page for an example of setting the Items