How do you set the column width of a datagrid?

[burak]

Hello,

 

This is a follow up to the "datagrid on windows forms" question.

 

I looked at the following page that tlaks about setting column widths of a datagrid

 

http://www.syncfusion.com/faq/winforms/search/792.asp

 

and modified my code as follows

 

Dim style As New DataGridTableStyle

style.MappingName = "providers_list"

style.GridColumnStyles(0).Width = 150

style.GridColumnStyles(1).Width = 200

style.GridColumnStyles(2).Width = 300

dtgCourses.TableStyles.Add(style)

dtgCourses.DataSource = ds.Tables(0)

dtgCourses.Refresh()

 

I get an index error when I run this, even though the selection sql has more then 3 return fields for each record.

 

How can I set the column widths of a datagrid from the code behind?

 

Thanks,

 

Burak

[bdubon]

Burak,

 

You need to declare grid column styles after the style.mappingName statement, eg Dim FirstNameCol As New DataGridTextBoxColumn().

Then set the various properties of the FirstNameCol column style i.e. .Width = 100, etc.

Then, add the new column style to the DataGridTableStyle collection using

style.GridColumnStyles.Add(FirstNameCol), and so on for each column style needed in the datagrid.

 

Hope this helps

[bdubon]

One more thing, you need to delete the following

 

"style.GridColumnStyles(0).Width = 150

style.GridColumnStyles(1).Width = 200

style.GridColumnStyles(2).Width = 300"