Question

I have an order table with the following columns:

orderid, clientid, [columns for order details] ...

I am then displaying this table, for a specific client, using a DataGridView. I have both the orderid and clientid columns hidden, however, as the orderid is a autonumbered primary key and the clientid is constant.

Unfortunately, when new rows are added to the DataGridView they are not persisted to the database. I believe this is because the orderid defaults to -1 and/or the clientid defaults to null whenever a new row is inserted into the DataGridView, but because those columns are hidden the user cannot change them.

So, my question:

How can I get the orderid to be selected automatically and have the clientid default to the currently displayed client, whenever a new row is inserted?

Answer 1

It appears I can trap the UserAddedRow event and manually set the correct value there:

private void myDataGridView_UserAddedRow(object sender, DataGridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
    myDataGridView[clientidColumn.Index, e.Row.Index - 1].Value = clientid;
}

This now correctly persists the new orders to the database, although it seems a bit hacky (why must it be e.Row.Index - 1?). Is there not a way to specify the default values for columns on new rows?