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How are you populating the DataGridView?<br />
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Wayne
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How are you populating the DataGridView?

Wayne

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Alternatively, you can handle the CellParsing event....<br />
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<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridview.cellparsing(VS.80).aspx" rel="ugc">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridview.cellparsing(VS.80).aspx</a><br />
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Wayne
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Alternatively, you can handle the CellParsing event....

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridview.cellparsing(VS.80).aspx [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridview.cellparsing(VS.80).aspx]

Wayne

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Whats cell validating? Could you please explain to us<br />
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thanks<br />

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Whats cell validating? Could you please explain to us


thanks


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Sorry I disappeared: this Southern California guy posted the question and then fell asleep. &nbsp;Very sorry.<br />
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The grid is being populated by user data entry.<br />
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&quot;cell validating&quot; is the use of the Datagrid1_CellValidating event.<br />
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My question now: at what point in the sequence is the CellParsing event called? &nbsp;Before or after the CellValidating event?
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Sorry I disappeared: this Southern California guy posted the question and then fell asleep.  Very sorry.

The grid is being populated by user data entry.

"cell validating" is the use of the Datagrid1_CellValidating event.
 
My question now: at what point in the sequence is the CellParsing event called?  Before or after the CellValidating event?

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User is allowed to use long or short date entry method for a Datagridview field. &nbsp;The entry has to pass CellValidating.<br />
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I do not know how to test for a valid date entry. &nbsp;User can enter long or short date - but it has to be valid.
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User is allowed to use long or short date entry method for a Datagridview field.  The entry has to pass CellValidating.

I do not know how to test for a valid date entry.  User can enter long or short date - but it has to be valid.

VB 2008 - Validate datagridview DATE entry

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