Question

I’m looping through rows in a datagridview, and selecting a cell from the 3rd column each time:

Dim customer_name as String
For Each dgvr As DataGridViewRow In myDataGridView.Rows
   customer_name= dgvr.Cells(2).Value
   '....
next dgvr

However, I’d really like to make it dynamic, in case a new column gets added to the grid, so that I need the 4th column, not the 3rd.

Ideally I’d like to use the column’s header text. So something like…

customer_name= dgvr.Cells("Customer").value

Can this be done?

Answer 1

This can be done, it is possible to select by header text. You can loop through each row and find the value for the name of a column.

For Each dgvr As DataGridViewRow In myDataGridView.Rows

Dim testString As String
testString = dgvr("Customer").ToString()

This should set the value of the test string to the current cell under the column name.

Hope this helps 🙂