Question

In my application I am trying to use RowFilter or Select methods of DataSet to show the values selected by the User in ComboBox. The DataSet has five columns hence my project has five ComboBoxes populated with same values of columns of DataSet respectively. Now I am trying to search the user selected values in the DataSet and populate in DataGridView. I have tried the below: (not working)

dgvMain.DataSource = null;
dgvMain.DataSource = dsMainDoctors.Tables[0].Select("Name = '" + cmbDoctorName.Text +"'");

or

dgvMain.DataSource = null;
dgvMain.DataSource = dsMainDoctors.Tables[0].DefaultView.RowFilter = "Name = '" + cmbDoctorName.Text + "'";

The first attempt is not showing anything but the second one is showing something like the below image instead of showing columns. Here I am trying to search with only one column value, but I need to search with three different columns of DataSet how to do that?

I know I am doing something wrong in my code. please suggest what should I do to correct my code. Please no linq because it is restricted by my head members. but all type of anwswers are welcome.

Answer 1

You could try to assign the defaultview, after the filtering action, to the datasource

dgvMain.DataSource = null;
dsMainDoctors.Tables[0].DefaultView.RowFilter = "Name = '" + cmbDoctorName.Text + "'";
dgvMain.DataSource = dsMainDoctors.Tables[0].DefaultView;