Question

I’d like my datagridview cursor to move right to the next column instead of moving to the next row after entering data to a cell.

I’ve attempted to take control of the cursor by capturing the keys via dataGridView1_KeyDown event but this does not prevent the cursor from moving to the next row after entering data to a cell …

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Cheers,

Answer 1

Here are an answer from Mark Rideout (DatagridView Program Manager)

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=157055&SiteID=1

Scroll down 4 posts (and then more because they make better versions later on in the thread).

For future references if link will expire (All credits to Mark Rideout):

Create a new class named dvg that inherits from DataGridView. Compile project and then use this extended Datagridview-control instead of the normal and you’ll have a datagridview that selects the next cell when pressing enter:

public class dgv : DataGridView { protected override bool ProcessDialogKey(Keys keyData) {     Keys key = (keyData & Keys.KeyCode);     if (key == Keys.Enter)     {         return this.ProcessRightKey(keyData);     }     return base.ProcessDialogKey(keyData); } protected override bool ProcessDataGridViewKey(KeyEventArgs e) {     if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter)     {         return this.ProcessRightKey(e.KeyData);     }     return base.ProcessDataGridViewKey(e); } 

}