I am enamored over the visual designer's capability in VS2005 to create all
the controls and customized code to fill and display a DataGridView just by
dragging a data source onto the designer surface and then specifying a SQL
query in the wizard. What I would like to know is how to do this
programmatically?

Specifically, I have a set of arbitrary SQL queries. I want to build a
Windows Form that allows the user to select one of these queries and for the
program then to create a new DataGridView on the current form, where the
columns and datatypes are derived from the results of the query (just as the
visual designer does). How would one approach this task...?

How about passing the SQL statement to the new forms constructors and
having a method handle the grid. This is just an
example.........................

private void LoadMainGrid(string SQL)
{
try
{
DataTable table = fillTable(SQL);
foreach (DataRow row in table.Rows)
{
if (row["SimFile"].ToString().Length != 0)
populateGrid(yourDataGridName,
row["aFieldYouWantDisplayed"].ToString(),
row["aFieldYouWantDisplayed"].ToString(),
row["aFieldYouWantDisplayed"].ToString());

}
}
catch (Exception e) { }
finally { cn.Close(); }
}

private void populateGrid(DataGridView dg, string row1, string
row2, string row3)
{
dg.Rows.Add((row1 + ";" + row2 + ";" + row3).Split(';'));
dg.Columns[2].Width = 250;
}

public DataTable FillTable(string SQL)
{
DataConnection();
DataTable table = new DataTable();
using (OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter(SQL,
cn))
{
da.Fill(table);
}
cn.Close();
return table;
}


public void DataConnection()
{
if (cn.State == ConnectionState.Open)
cn.Close();

cn.ConnectionString = "YourConnectionString"
cn.Open();
}

"michael sorens" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:69C599C6-4F07-4F2F-B43F-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am enamored over the visual designer's capability in VS2005 to create
>all
> the controls and customized code to fill and display a DataGridView just
> by
> dragging a data source onto the designer surface and then specifying a
> SQL
> query in the wizard. What I would like to know is how to do this
> programmatically?
>
> Specifically, I have a set of arbitrary SQL queries. I want to build a
> Windows Form that allows the user to select one of these queries and for
> the
> program then to create a new DataGridView on the current form, where the
> columns and datatypes are derived from the results of the query (just as
> the
> visual designer does). How would one approach this task...?
>

Do you know how to run the query and get back a dataset? If so, you can do
that, and then just bind the information to a grid.

myDataGridView.DataSource = myDataTable

You can create the DGV on the fly. Check out the designer code behing the
forms you are already using.

Robin S.

That suggestion pointed me in the right direction. For anyone else who might
be interested, here is the short solution I came up with:
====================
string queryString = "...";
string connectionString = "...";
SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString);
SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter(queryString, connection);
DataTable dataTable = new DataTable();
adapter.Fill(dataTable);
myDataGridView.DataSource = dataTable;
====================