DataGridView checkbox column - value and functionality

Question

I\'ve added a checkbox column to a DataGridView in my C# form. The function needs to be dynamic - you select a customer and that brings up all of their items that could be s

Answer 1

it took me a long time to figure out how to do this without having to loop through all the records. I have a bound datagridview-source, and all fields are bound except for the checkbox-column. So I don't have/need a loop to add each row and I didn't want to create one just for this purpuse. So after a lot of trying I finally got it. And it's actually very simple too:

First you add a new .cs File to your project with a custom-checkbox cell, e.g.

DataGridViewCheckboxCellFilter.cs:

using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace MyNamespace {
    public class DataGridViewCheckboxCellFilter : DataGridViewCheckBoxCell {
        public DataGridViewCheckboxCellFilter() : base() {
            this.FalseValue = 0;
            this.TrueValue = 1;
            this.Value = TrueValue;
        }
    }
}

After this, on your GridView, where you add the checkbox-column, you do:

// add checkboxes
DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn col_chkbox = new DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn();
{
    col_chkbox.HeaderText = "X";
    col_chkbox.Name = "checked";
    col_chkbox.CellTemplate = new DataGridViewCheckboxCellFilter();                
}
this.Columns.Add(col_chkbox);

And that's it! Everytime your checkboxes get added in a new row, they'll be set to true. Enjoy!