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Borno Stojak
Borno Stojak

Reputation: 9

C# DataGridView with updatable DataSource

I have a DataGridView and multiple objects containing data whit which I want to populate the DataGridView every time I switch between selecting one of those objects. I also want to update the data in those objects every time I edit the DataGridView.

The DataGridView already has predefined columns, some of them being a ComboBox column.

Say I have

public class OB()
{
    public DataTable data { get; private set; } = new DataTable();
}

obj1 = new OB();
obj2 = new OB();
.
.
.
public void some_selection_event(object s, EventArgs e)
{
    dataGridView1.DataSource = ((OB)s).data;
}

If I edit dataGridView1 while obj1.data is bound to its DataSource and then bind something else to it before binding obj1.data back to it again, dataGridView1 show that it only remembers the number of rows it had whilst I was editing it with obj1.data bound to its DataSource, and the data in the cells is lost, every cell is empty.

Is there a way that I can easily map a DataSource to a DataGridView and have then automatically update, or am I missing something here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 140

Answers (1)

Borno Stojak
Borno Stojak

Reputation: 9

If you have predefined Columns in your DataGridView, use DataGridView.DataPropertyName to make sure that the DataSource and DataGridView are both addressing the same data.

Upvotes: 0

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