> Hello,
>
> I have a one datagrid that will be based on different datatables.  One
> datatable may have 7 columns, another 15...  With the tables that have more
> columns, I have been manually dragging column widths to narrow them.  I want
> to record these widths so I can reapply them when I bind the datagrid to the
> table with 15 columns.  I have searched around for articles on this and saw
> some that talked about datagrid.TableStyle.GridColumnStyle something,  but on
> intellisense of my datagrid I got TableStyles and no GridColumnStyles.   I
> would be very grateful if someone could set me straight on how I can retrieve
> and set column widths for a datagrid from code.  Do I need to use a dataview
> maybe to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Rich

>
> I can tell you how to do the GridColumnStyle (it's
> datagrid.TableStyle(0).GridColumnStyle) but there is a better way.
>
> If you add one TableStyle for each of the datatables you are using the
> grid will change automatically depending on which datatable is bound to
> it.  The key that seems to get missed often on doing this is to make
> sure the TableStyle.MappingName matches the name of the datatable.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Chris
>

> I am having a problem setting a table style for my datatable.  How do I do
> that?
>
> Dim dt As DataTable
> dt = Dataset1.Tables("tbl1")
> dt.???????
> datagrid1.DataSource = dt
>
>
>
>>I can tell you how to do the GridColumnStyle (it's
>>datagrid.TableStyle(0).GridColumnStyle) but there is a better way.
>>
>>If you add one TableStyle for each of the datatables you are using the
>>grid will change automatically depending on which datatable is bound to
>>it.  The key that seems to get missed often on doing this is to make
>>sure the TableStyle.MappingName matches the name of the datatable.
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>Chris
>>

"Chris" wrote:

> Rich wrote:
> > I am having a problem setting a table style for my datatable.  How do I do
> > that?
> >
> > Dim dt As DataTable
> > dt = Dataset1.Tables("tbl1")
> > dt.???????
> > datagrid1.DataSource = dt
> >
> >
> >
> >>I can tell you how to do the GridColumnStyle (it's
> >>datagrid.TableStyle(0).GridColumnStyle) but there is a better way.
> >>
> >>If you add one TableStyle for each of the datatables you are using the
> >>grid will change automatically depending on which datatable is bound to
> >>it.  The key that seems to get missed often on doing this is to make
> >>sure the TableStyle.MappingName matches the name of the datatable.
> >>
> >>Hope this helps.
> >>Chris
> >>
>
>
> You set the tablestyle of the datagrid.
> (doing this from memory, but you'll get the idea)
>
> 'Do this for each table
> Dim DT as new DataGridTableStyle
> DT.MappingName = "tbl1" '<--Important!
>
> 'Add one for each column you want displayed
> Dim Column as new DataGridTextBoxColumn
> Column.Width = 100
> Column.DisplayName = ... 'This might be wrong property
> Column.MappingName = ... 'This might be wrong property
> DT.DataGridColumnStyle.Add(Column)
> Column = new DataGridTextBoxColumn
> Column.Width = 150
> Column.DisplayName = ... 'This might be wrong property
> Column.MappingName = ... 'This might be wrong property
> DT.DataGridColumnStyle.Add(Column)
>
> DataGrid1.TableStyles.Add(DT)
>
> Dim dt As DataTable
> datagrid1.DataSource = Dataset1.Tables("tbl1")
>
> Hope this helps
> Chris
>