DataGrid, 2 (easy) Questions

[DougW48]

I have 2 questions concerning a DataGrid. Basically, I have a DataTable with 8 DataColumns. The table is initially empty, and the user fills in the information at run-time. Here are my questions: 1) I don't want every column being the same width at startup. How can I programatically change the column widths directly after I set the DataSource? 2) Each time a new row is created in my table, all of the cells contain "(null)". I want the cells to just be initially empty. How is this done? These will probably be 2 very easy questions to answer. I appreciate the help! :)

[SapiensBwG]

i cant answer the first one! u cant make empty variables! when u create them and do not assign them a value they are null. u can try assinging them an empty string like code>string empty = "";<

[DougW48]

Assigning empty strings worked just fine. Thank you for your post! :-D

[Charlie Williams]

The answer to both questions is to apply a DataGridTableStyle.

DataGridTableStyle style = new DataGridTableStyle();
style.MappingName = "MyTableName"; // Name of the DataTable
DataGridColumnStyle colStyle = new DataGridTextBoxColumn();
colStyle.Width = 85;
colStyle.NullText = "";
colStyle.MappingName = "Column1"; // Name of the column in the DataTable
colStyle.HeaderText = "First Name"; // This will be displayed as the column header
style.GridColumnStyles.Add(colStyle);
dataGrid1.TableStyles.Add(style);

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[partyganger]

As an answer to your first question: you can add DataGridStyles to your Grid, in the designer and in code. Do this before you point the Grid to its datasource. If you program the available columns manually, you can set their Width and headertext too. All columns you want invisible, set the respective widths to 0. You can also define a methodthat returns a DataGridStyle and add that to the Grids style, possibly deleting the old style (DataSource has to be null to do that I believe)