Select datagridview row

Marvin kakuru

Hi there,
Am trying to get an entire row of my datagridview selected, because one of its columns contains a value similar to a value in my textbox1.text.
Any help will be appreciated.

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Sam Hobbs11y ago
When you say "get an entire row of my datagridview selected" do you mean you want to make a row selected or do you mean you want to get the data of a row that is selected? If you want to get the data then is the DataGridView bound to something such as a table? If it is bound then it usually would be best to get the bound row.
Vulpes11y ago
If 'textBox1' is your TextBox, 'dataGridView1' is your DGV and the column you want to match has an index of 'k' say, then try this:

// in Form_Load

dataGridView1.SelectionMode = DataGridViewSelectionMode.FullRowSelect;
dataGridView1.MultiSelect = true; // if column values are not necessarily unique

// in a button Click, textBox Leave or wherever you want to put it

if (textBox1.Text.Length > 0)
{
int k = 0; // or whatever
string search = textBox1.Text.Trim().ToLower(); // case insensitive search
dataGridView1.ClearSelection(); // 'unselect' previously selected rows

foreach (DataGridViewRow row in dataGridView1.Rows)
{
object obj = row.Cells[k].Value;
if (obj != null && obj.ToString().ToLower() == search)
{
row.Selected = true;
}
}
}

Marvin kakuru11y ago

Below is the code I have used successfully.

private void btnSearch_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {     string searchValue = textBox1.Text;      dgvProjects.SelectionMode = DataGridViewSelectionMode.FullRowSelect;     try     {         foreach (DataGridViewRow row in dgvProjects.Rows)         {             if (row.Cells[2].Value.ToString().Equals(searchValue))             {                 row.Selected = true;                 break;             }         }     }     catch (Exception exc)     {         MessageBox.Show(exc.Message);     } }

Vikram Agrawal11y ago
Hi Marvin,
you can do this in GridViewSelectedIndexChange event.
in that you will get the selected row and in that row you can find your column's value and match with textbox.
like

string txt = (grid1.SelectedRow.FindControl("MyLabel") as Label ).Text;
Khargesh Rajput11y ago

protected void OnSelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)

{



    string val1= (GridView1.SelectedRow.FindControl("lbl1") as Label).Text;

string val2= (GridView1.SelectedRow.FindControl("lbl2") as Label).Text;

    or

string val1= GridView1.SelectedRow.Cells[0].Text;
string val2= GridView1.SelectedRow.Cells[1].Text;

}
Piyush Pansuriya11y ago
Hi Marvin,

you can get on selection_changed event of datagridview.
i.e.
(datagridview.selecteditem as ).