Retaining column widths in the datagridview (.net 2.0) :-(

8 Mar 2007 4:57 PM

Simon Harvey

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me if there is an easy way to retain per-user column
widths for the datagridview in a windows forms application.

I know I could do it with a lot of database programming and what not,
but I was hoping there would be a much easier solution. It seems like
such an obvious requirement, but I can find any articles on how to do it.

Many thanks to anyone who can advise

Kindest Regards

Simon

8 Mar 2007 7:09 PM

Andrew Stoneham

Have you considered making a dataset and storing the values in there (along
the lines of 1 table with 3 columns [tablename, columnname, width] and just
adding the values through a loop) then saving the xml in the users
application data folder.

Then when the application starts, load the xml file if it exists and restore
the changes.

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"Simon Harvey" wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone tell me if there is an easy way to retain per-user column
> widths for the datagridview in a windows forms application.
>
> I know I could do it with a lot of database programming and what not,
> but I was hoping there would be a much easier solution. It seems like
> such an obvious requirement, but I can find any articles on how to do it.
>
> Many thanks to anyone who can advise
>
> Kindest Regards
>
> Simon
>

8 Mar 2007 7:33 PM

Simon

Hi Andrew

Thanks very much for your thoughts. If there isn't an easier way I may
have to do just that - but I'm holding out for something simpler! :-)

I'm just hoping, perhaps in vain, that there is some dead easy way to
get this to work using some Visual Studio design time trickery.

Anyone?

Thanks again

Simon

9 Mar 2007 11:31 AM

Kevin Spencer

You can bind them to User-scoped Application Settings. I'm not sure whether
this can be done explicitly in the Designer, but it isn't hard. Here are a
couple of references for you:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0zszyc6e.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0yyxh69h(vs.80).aspx

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Microsoft MVP

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"Simon" <si***@nothanks.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Andrew
>
> Thanks very much for your thoughts. If there isn't an easier way I may
> have to do just that - but I'm holding out for something simpler! :-)
>
> I'm just hoping, perhaps in vain, that there is some dead easy way to get
> this to work using some Visual Studio design time trickery.
>
> Anyone?
>
> Thanks again
>
> Simon