Vertical text in datagridview

Question

I want to show the text in the header cells in vertical orientation. How can I do it?

Thanks

Answer 1

A simpler and more effective renderer

Attach event either through designer, or with this line of code

dataGridView1.CellPainting += new DataGridView1_CellPainting(dataGridView1_CellPainting);

Event handler to draw rotated text

private void DataGridView1_CellPainting(object sender, DataGridViewCellPaintingEventArgs e) {
    // Vertical text from column 0, or adjust below, if first column(s) to be skipped
    if (e.RowIndex == -1 && e.ColumnIndex >= 0) {
        e.PaintBackground(e.CellBounds, true);
        e.Graphics.TranslateTransform(e.CellBounds.Left , e.CellBounds.Bottom);
        e.Graphics.RotateTransform(270);
        e.Graphics.DrawString(e.FormattedValue.ToString(),e.CellStyle.Font,Brushes.Black,5,5);
        e.Graphics.ResetTransform();
        e.Handled = true;
    }
}