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DataGrid styling problems

Hello,

I'm going mad trying to figure out why my DataGrid is not being formatted as I want it to be. I have three columns which I style using a single DataGridTableStyle with DataGridTextBoxColumns for each column's style.

The styling is called from the function AddColumns(), below:

private void AddColumns()
            {

                  DataGridTableStyle tableStyle = new DataGridTableStyle();
                  tableStyle.MappingName = "Order";

                  DataGridTextBoxColumn menuIDColumn = new DataGridTextBoxColumn();
                  menuIDColumn.MappingName = "ItemMenuID";
                  menuIDColumn.HeaderText = "Menu ID";
                  menuIDColumn.Alignment= HorizontalAlignment.Left;
                  menuIDColumn.Width = 10;
                  menuIDColumn.NullText = "";

                  DataGridTextBoxColumn nameColumn = new DataGridTextBoxColumn();
                  nameColumn.MappingName = "ItemName";
                  nameColumn.HeaderText = "Name";
                  nameColumn.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left;
                  nameColumn.Width = 200;
                  nameColumn.NullText = "";

                  DataGridTextBoxColumn priceColumn = new DataGridTextBoxColumn();
                  priceColumn.MappingName = "ItemPrice";
                  priceColumn.HeaderText = "Price";
                  priceColumn.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left;
                  priceColumn.Width = 20;
                  priceColumn.NullText = "";

                  tableStyle.GridColumnStyles.Add(menuIDColumn);
                  tableStyle.GridColumnStyles.Add(nameColumn);
                  tableStyle.GridColumnStyles.Add(priceColumn);

                  tableStyle.AlternatingBackColor = System.Drawing.Color.WhiteSmoke;

                  orderDataGrid.TableStyles.Add(tableStyle);
}

This function is called in the form's constructor, along with row names and data types.

Thanks in advance.

Tonylmiller

It would be a good start to tell us what the problem is. . .

So what is it not doing correctly? Is it doing some of the formatting, but not all?

_WolfyUK

ASKER

It's not applying any formatting.

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Tonylmiller

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jj819430

What are you binding to?
Are you pulling this data from say a SQL DB.
If so you need to do the binding.
And you may be doing things out of order.

_WolfyUK

ASKER

d'oh!