Best way to disable the column header sorting in DataGridView [duplicate]

Answer 1

I don't know why nobody suggest you Linq way of doing this:

BalancesGridView.Columns.Cast<DataGridViewColumn>().ToList().ForEach(f => f.SortMode = DataGridViewColumnSortMode.NotSortable);

Answer 2

The best way I've found to prevent sorting is to define is to define it a for loop when you think you have to many columns to deal with.

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
   dataGridView.Columns[i].SortMode = DataGridViewColumnSortMode.NotSortable;
}

Answer 3

No, I think setting the SortMode on the column directly is as good as it gets. But honestly, who cares? What's so bad about a simple loop?

Answer 4

I ran into this problem today. I wrote this method and called it on the form load event.

    public void DisableGridviewSorting(DataGridView grid, int index)
    {
        //Index = DataGridView.Columns.Count
        for (int i = 0; i < index; i++)
        {
            grid.Columns[i].SortMode = DataGridViewColumnSortMode.NotSortable;
        }
    }

It looks like you are pretty much stuck looping through the DataGridView no matter how you do it, unless you use bound data. Then you can set non-sortable for each individual column.

Answer 5

If you build the DataGridView at runtime, you can disable column sorting as the columns are added using the ColumnAdded Event:

private void BalancesGridView_ColumnAdded(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewColumnEventArgs e)
{
     e.Column.SortMode = DataGridViewColumnSortMode.NotSortable;
}

Answer 6

In VB I use a little subroutine I call for each dgv where I want the columns to be unsortable:

Public Sub subNo_Sort_DGV_Columns(dgv As DataGridView)

  For intColumn_Count As Integer = 1 To dgv.Columns.Count - 1
    dgv.Columns(intColumn_Count).SortMode = _ DataGridViewColumnSortMode.NotSortable
  Next

End Sub