How to hide column of DataGridView when using custom DataSource?

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I have a small app in c#, it has a DataGridView that gets filled using:

grid.DataSource = MyDatasource array;

MyClass hold the structure for the columns, it looks something like this:

class MyDatasource
{
    private string column1;        
    private string column2;

    public MyDatasource(string arg1, string arg2)
    {
        this.column1 = arg1;
        this.column2 = arg2;
    }

    public string column1
    {
        get
        {
            return this.column1;
        }
        set
        {
            this.column1 = value;
        }
    }

    public string column2
    {
        get
        {
            return this.column2;
        }
        set
        {
            this.column1 = value;
        }
    }
}

Everything works fine and the DataGridView gets populated with the correct data, but now I want to hide the column2. I tried adding [Browsable(false)] above the column declaration, that will hide it, but I also need to access the column value from code, and when I use [Browsable(false)] and try to read the content it acts like if the column doesn't exist. If I don't use it I can read the column without problem but it's visible in the DataGridView.

How could I hide the column but still be able to read its content from code?

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10 Answers

Just set DataGridView.AutoGenerateColumns = false;

You need click on the arrow on top right corner (in datagridview) to add columns, and in DataPropertyName you need to put a name of your property in your class.

Then, after you defined your columns in datagridview, you can set datagridview.datasource = myClassViewModel.

user_89011840

MyDataGridView.RowHeadersVisible = False; Before binding and rename each columns header and set columns width. To help my failing memory when I search, because I will search ... that's for sure ;-)

user_92056230

If you want to use the BrowsableAttribute, then you can look for it at runtime on the model and hide the column accordingly:

private void Form_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //add this line after your DataGridView initialization
    HideColumns<MyModel>(myDvg);
}

private void HideColumns<T>(DataGridView dvg)
{
    var type = typeof(T);
    foreach (var column in dvg.Columns.Cast<DataGridViewColumn>())
        column.Visible = IsBrowsable(type.GetProperty(column.Name));
}

private bool IsBrowsable(PropertyInfo propertyInfo)
{
    var attribute = propertyInfo.GetCustomAttributes(true).FirstOrDefault(att => att.GetType() == typeof(BrowsableAttribute));
    return attribute == null || (attribute as BrowsableAttribute).Browsable;
}
user_75473890

Try follow:

DataGridView1.Columns["YourColumnName"].Visible = false;
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