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[locaas]

hy i habve a datagrid and i wanth to make some columns invisible and "Datagrid.Columns(2).visible = False" isn't working.. Can someone tell me why or show me another way 2 do this? i am using vs 2005 plz help 10x

[Kschuler]

I usually do this in the GridView's RowDataBound event. (Or if you are indeed using a DataGrid instead of the GridView it is the ItemDataBound event. Personally, I don't use the old DataGrid objects anymore.) For a GridView the code would look something like this:

Protected Sub GridView1\_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs) Handles GridView1.RowDataBound
    Select Case e.Row.RowType
        Case DataControlRowType.DataRow
            e.Row.Cells(0).Visible = False
    End Select
End Sub

In this example I am hiding the first column in the grid only. If you need to hide another you would need to know the column index and add another statement like this: e.Row.Cells(index).Visible = False Hope this helps.