Datagridview: How to set a cell in editing mode?

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I need to programmatically set a cell in editing mode. I know that setting that cell as CurrentCell and then call the method BeginEdit(bool), it should happen, but in my case, it doesn't.

I really want that, with my DGV with several columns, the user can ONLY select and also edit the first two. The other columns are already read-only, but the user can select them, and that is what I don't want.

So I was thinking, tell the user to TAB everytime it has finished writing on the cell, then select the second cell, then tab again and it select and begin edit the next row's first cell...

How can I do this?

datagridview .net-3.5 winforms c#
6 Answers

I know this is an old question, but none of the answers worked for me, because I wanted to reliably (always be able to) set the cell into edit mode when possibly executing other events like Toolbar Button clicks, menu selections, etc. that may affect the default focus after those events return. I ended up needing a timer and invoke. The following code is in a new component derived from DataGridView. This code allows me to simply make a call to myXDataGridView.CurrentRow_SelectCellFocus(myDataPropertyName); anytime I want to arbitrarily set a databound cell to edit mode (assuming the cell is Not in ReadOnly mode).

// If the DGV does not have Focus prior to a toolbar button Click, 
// then the toolbar button will have focus after its Click event handler returns.
// To reliably set focus to the DGV, we need to time it to happen After event handler procedure returns.

private string m_SelectCellFocus_DataPropertyName = "";
private System.Timers.Timer timer_CellFocus = null;

public void CurrentRow_SelectCellFocus(string sDataPropertyName)
{
  // This procedure is called by a Toolbar Button's Click Event to select and set focus to a Cell in the DGV's Current Row.
  m_SelectCellFocus_DataPropertyName = sDataPropertyName;
  timer_CellFocus = new System.Timers.Timer(10);
  timer_CellFocus.Elapsed += TimerElapsed_CurrentRowSelectCellFocus;
  timer_CellFocus.Start();
}


void TimerElapsed_CurrentRowSelectCellFocus(object sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
  timer_CellFocus.Stop();
  timer_CellFocus.Elapsed -= TimerElapsed_CurrentRowSelectCellFocus;
  timer_CellFocus.Dispose();
  // We have to Invoke the method to avoid raising a threading error
  this.Invoke((MethodInvoker)delegate
  {
    Select_Cell(m_SelectCellFocus_DataPropertyName);
  });
}


private void Select_Cell(string sDataPropertyName)
{
  /// When the Edit Mode is Enabled, set the initial cell to the Description
  foreach (DataGridViewCell dgvc in this.SelectedCells) 
  {
    // Clear previously selected cells
    dgvc.Selected = false; 
  }
  foreach (DataGridViewCell dgvc in this.CurrentRow.Cells)
  {
    // Select the Cell by its DataPropertyName
    if (dgvc.OwningColumn.DataPropertyName == sDataPropertyName)
    {
      this.CurrentCell = dgvc;
      dgvc.Selected = true;
      this.Focus();
      return;
    }
  }
}
user_35191080

I finally found an answer to this. In my case, I wanted to select a specific index or item after adding a new row, but this should apply to other situations.

The cell doesnt hold the combobox controls per say. The DGV does, it holds the controls of the current cell. So you have to make the current cell the combo cell, then go in edit mode, then cast the dgv controls as ComboBox, then you will have access to the selectedIndex and selectedItem methods

Dim rowIndex = myDgv.Rows.Add()
myDgv.ClearSelection()
myDgv.CurrentCell = myDgv.Rows(rowIndex).Cells("colName")
myDgv.BeginEdit(True)
Dim myCombo as ComboBox = CType(myDgv.EditingControl, ComboBox)
myCombo.SelectedIndex = 3
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