programmatically select a row based on gridview values

Question

What I have

I have a DataGridView with 3 columns (metric_key, metric_name, metric_value).

There are for example, 6 ROWS in this table (6 different metrics), ad

Answer 1

There isn't a built in way to do this. But you can define an extension method on DataGridView to accomplish this.

<System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Extension()> _
Function FindValue(ByRef dgv As DataGridView, ByVal metric_key As Object) As DataGridViewRow
    For Each row As DataGridViewRow In dgv.Rows
        If row.Cells.Item("metric_value").Value = metric_key Then
            Return row
        End If
    Next
    Return Nothing
End Function

So if you wanted to get the row where the metric_value is 1, you could use

dataGridView1.FindValue(1)