Question

I’ve been trying to find out how to select all cells under a Column with a ‘mouse right click+menu+Select this Column’…

MSDN isn’t helping much…

I get this error when I try to change selection mode:

DataGridView control's SelectionMode cannot be set to FullColumnSelect while it has a   column with SortMode set to DataGridViewColumnSortMode.Automatic.

Thanks,
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Answer 1

Loop through the cells in the column and set their Selected property to true.
It sounds horrible, but I believe it’s the only way to select an entire column and keep automatic sorting.

For example:

grid.ClearSelection();
for(int r = 0; r < grid.RowCount; r++)
    grid[columnIndex, r].Selected = true;