How to programmatically set cell value in DataGridView?

Question

I have a DataGridView. Some of the cells receive their data from a serial port: I want to shove the data into the cell, and have it update the underlying bound object.

Answer 1

I came across the same problem and solved it as following for VB.NET. It's the .NET Framework so you should be possible to adapt. Wanted to compare my solution and now I see that nobody seems to solve it my way.

Make a field declaration.

Private _currentDataView as DataView

So looping through all the rows and searching for a cell containing a value that I know is next to the cell I want to change works for me.

Public Sub SetCellValue(ByVal value As String)
    Dim dataView As DataView = _currentDataView

    For i As Integer = 0 To dataView.Count - 1
        If dataView(i).Row.Item("projID").ToString.Equals("139") Then
            dataView(i).Row.Item("Comment") = value
            Exit For ' Exit early to save performance
        End If
    Next
End Sub

So that you can better understand it. I know that ColumnName "projID" is 139. I loop until I find it and then I can change the value of "ColumnNameofCell" in my case "Comment". I use this for comments added on runtime.