How to: Prevent Row Addition and Deletion in the Windows Forms DataGridView Control Using the Designer

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Sometimes you will want to prevent users from entering new rows of data or deleting existing rows in your DataGridView control. New rows are entered in the special row for new records at the bottom of the control. When you disable row addition, the row for new records is not displayed. You can then make the control entirely read-only by disabling row deletion and cell editing.

The following procedure requires a Windows Application project with a form containing a DataGridView control. For information about setting up such a project, see How to: Create a Windows Application Project and How to: Add Controls to Windows Forms.

Note

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To prevent row addition and deletion

  • On the control's smart tag, clear the Enable Adding and Enable Deleting check boxes.

    Note

    To make the control entirely read-only, clear the Enable Editing check box as well.

See Also

Tasks

How to: Create a Windows Application Project
How to: Add Controls to Windows Forms

Reference

DataGridView
System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView.AllowUserToAddRows