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Asked: 2026-05-15T01:10:05+00:00

(This question is narrower in scope than this question I asked earlier.) Say I

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(This question is narrower in scope than this question I asked earlier.)

Say I have a DataGridViewComboBoxColumn, and want to switch the style of the ComboBox control between DropDownList and DropDown (mainly for the text field editing capability). I’d like to do this on a row-by-row basis (at the DataGridViewComboBoxCell level).

How would I do that programatically?

Or maybe a different way of asking: How do I access the ComboBox control given an object of type DataGridViewComboBoxCell?

(I’m in VB 2005.)

Thanks as always.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Not sure if you still need an answer, but i have a question that covers similar ground: Detect which column is showing an editing control in a datagridview

    i use something like this line to get the combobox out of the DataGridView (DGV) in my DataGridView’s CellValidating event:

    Dim comboBox As DataGridViewComboBoxCell = DGV.Item(e.ColumnIndex, e.RowIndex)

    later i use this line to get change the DropDownList ComboBoxCell to a DropDown:

    cb.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.DropDown

    For mine to work i had to make sure the ‘cb’ was of the ComboBox type, i dont remember if i was able to get it working well if the combobox was of the DataGridViewComboBoxCell type.

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