DataGridView::CellValueNeeded Event
Occurs when the VirtualMode property of the DataGridView control is true and the DataGridView requires a value for a cell in order to format and display the cell.
Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)
Use this event in virtual mode to populate cells with data from a custom data store without causing rows to become unshared. For more information about row sharing, see Best Practices for Scaling the Windows Forms DataGridView Control. For more information about virtual mode, see Virtual Mode in the Windows Forms DataGridView Control.
To add user-specified values to your custom data store, handle the CellValuePushed event.
For more information about handling events, see Consuming Events.
The following code example handles the CellValueNeeded event to populate cells with positive integers. This example is part of a larger example available in the VirtualMode reference topic.
#pragma region Data store maintance
void VirtualConnector::dataGridView1_CellValueNeeded
(Object^ sender, DataGridViewCellValueEventArgs^ e)
{
if (store->ContainsKey(e->RowIndex))
{
// Use the store if the e value has been modified
// and stored.
e->Value = gcnew Int32(store->default[e->RowIndex]);
}
else if (newRowNeeded && e->RowIndex == numberOfRows)
{
if (dataGridView1->IsCurrentCellInEditMode)
{
e->Value = initialValue;
}
else
{
// Show a blank e if the cursor is just loitering
// over(the) last row.
e->Value = String::Empty;
}
}
else
{
e->Value = e->RowIndex;
}
}
void VirtualConnector::dataGridView1_CellValuePushed
(Object^ sender, DataGridViewCellValueEventArgs^ e)
{
String^ value = e->Value->ToString();
store[e->RowIndex] = Int32::Parse(value,
CultureInfo::CurrentCulture);
}
#pragma endregion
Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.