asked on 7/19/2016

Add combo box filled row in data table

Hi,

I am doing a project in VB.Net. I have attached datatable in a datagridview with couple of datacolumns.

Now I want to insert a row just below datagridview header row in which each cell needs to be a combobox. Those combobox need to be filled up by column names of a SQL server table.

The user will select different values from those comboboxes.

Finally I want the entire datagridview table value with selected combobox values, in a datatable as datagridview.datasource.

How to do that? Please advise.

Regards,
Soumen

.NET Programming

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Ess Kay

7/21/2016

Ess Kay

7/20/2016

To add comboboxes into the datagridview use the following

Private Sub AddSomeComboBoxes()
			dataGridView1.ColumnCount = 3
			dataGridView1.Columns(0).Name = "ID"
			dataGridView1.Columns(1).Name = "Name"
			dataGridView1.Columns(2).Name = "Price"

			Dim row As String() = New String() {"1", "Product A", "1000"}
			dataGridView1.Rows.Add(row)
			row = New String() {"2", "Product B", "2000"}
			dataGridView1.Rows.Add(row)
			row = New String() {"3", "Product C", "3000"}
			dataGridView1.Rows.Add(row)
			row = New String() {"4", "Product D", "4000"}
			dataGridView1.Rows.Add(row)

			Dim cmb As New DataGridViewComboBoxColumn()
			cmb.HeaderText = "Select Data"
			cmb.Name = "cmb"
			cmb.MaxDropDownItems = 4
			cmb.Items.Add("True")
			cmb.Items.Add("False")
			dataGridView1.Columns.Add(cmb)

		End Sub

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You chould be able to access the data via dataGridView1.datasource

hope that helps

Soumen Roy

7/21/2016

ASKER

Hi,

Thank you for your advice.

As I told, my datagridview already has filled up columns from attached datatable . So no need to add columns. There lies the criticality is.

I want to add an extra row in that datagridview at 0th index with comboboxes. Which essentially need to be filled up by other data sources.

Regards,
Roy

Ess Kay

7/21/2016

What you would want to do is use the code above to add a column (either on form load or initializegrid)

Then set the displayIndex to 0:

 dataGridView1.Columns["YOUCOLUMNNAME"].DisplayIndex = 0

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Datasources:
instead of

cmb.Items.Add("True")
cmb.Items.Add("False")

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you would run a loop through your 'other data sources' and add the items that way

example (in pseudocode):

Dim dt as dataTable
'...  fill the dt with results from other datasources

 For Each Row In DT.Rows
                    cmb.Items.Add(Row("YOURCOLUMNINDATATABLE"))
Next

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