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

Answer 1

well, this is a bit old, but there is a little problem with looping to set the individual column sortmode, for example, you allow user to add more columns, then you have to re-loop it all again, or find the added column and set it's sortmode. that is a bit of more work.

the solution I found is like this link: Disable sorting when clicking DataGridView column header

in it, you just add an event handler of ColumnAdded for that DataGridView, so every time the datagrid adds column, it is automatically set as not sortable

this is actually just like @OldDog's answer, the difference is that in his answer, the sortmode is set in a roundabout way.

Private Sub DataGridView1_ColumnAdded(sender As Object, e As DataGridViewColumnEventArgs) Handles DataGridView1.ColumnAdded
    e.Column.SortMode = DataGridViewColumnSortMode.NotSortable
End Sub

Answer 2

What's so bad about this? If it bothers you to loop over the columns or you have multiple DataGridView's, you can write an extension method for this:

public static class DatatGridViewExtensions
{
    public static void SetColumnSortMode(this DataGridView dataGridView, DataGridViewColumnSortMode sortMode)
    {
        foreach (var column in dataGridView.Columns)
        {
            column.SortMode = sortMode;
        }
    }
}

Use it like this:

BalancesGridView.SetColumnSortMode(DataGridViewColumnSortMode.NotSortable);

Answer 3

I say looping through columns is not such a great answer, especially if your datasource is changing from time to time. One line of code in the ColumnAdded event does the trick:

e.Column.SortMode = DataGridViewColumnSortMode.NotSortable

Answer 4

I have done it in this way:

private void gvItReq_RowsAdded(object sender, DataGridViewRowsAddedEventArgs e)
{
    for (int colIdx = 0; colIdx < gvItReq.Columns.Count; colIdx++)
        gvItReq.Columns[colIdx].SortMode = DataGridViewColumnSortMode.NotSortable;
}