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newbee
newbee

Reputation: 199

C# Win. Form - Data not reflecting when 2 datagridviews are set equal

I have 2 forms (Form1, Form2) each having 1 datagridview with modifier Public and 1 button. The code written on the buttons are:-

Form2 f = new Form2();
f.Show();
f.datagridview1 = datagridview1;

Problem

Now when i press the button of Form1, Form2 appears but the values in datagridview1 of Form1 are not displayed in the datagridview1 of Form2 but when i programmatically check for the values in datagridview1 of Form2, the values are there.

Solutions tried

  1. datagridview1.Refresh(); - i tried to refresh the control of Form2 but no changes were seen.
  2. f.Refresh(); - i even tried to update the whole Form2 but still no changes were seen

Note:- I know i instead of writing f.datagridview1 = datagridview1; i can write a loop to populate the datagridview but i need to know what is the problem with the above code.

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (2)

Michael Faisst
Michael Faisst

Reputation: 607

You shouldn't override the reference to the dataGridView (which means that you will access the dataGridView from Form1, even if you access f.dataGridView1 from Form2), but rather set the DataSource from both dataGridViews to the same object.

So the error in your code can be made visible if you add the following line in your code:

Form2 f = new Form2();
f.Show();
f.datagridview1 = datagridview1;
f.datagridview1.DataSource = null;

You will see that, all of a sudden, your datagridview in Form1 will be empty, because datagridview1 AND f.datagridview1 will point to the same datagridview in Form1. Also you can no longer access the datagridview from From2 (at least not that easy).

So maybe try this instead:

f.datagridview1.DataSource = datagridview1.DataSource

This code will just set both DataSources (which contain the actual data) to the same object in both datagridviews.

I hope this explanation is somewhat understandable : )

Upvotes: 1

Jakub Szumiato
Jakub Szumiato

Reputation: 1318

You could use ResetBindings on the BindingSource object. Like that:

//could be simpler assignment, but to give you a view on what is going on
BindingSource source = new BindingSource();
source.DataSource = f.datagridview1.DataSource;
source.ResetBindings(false);

Let me know if that works for you

Upvotes: 0

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