datagrid focusing on a specific cell based on column name

[jamie]

I have a datagrid that is linked to a dataset. I want to set focus to the
datagrid at a specific column. I know the row number (0) but I can't
find an easy way to figure out where column["species"] is. Normally I make
a temporary dataGridCell and set it to be at row 0 column 1 and then make
the datagrid.currentcell = the temportary cell but I can't seem to get the
column number back to use that. Any ideas?

Jamie

 

[jamie]

Noone has ever tried to do this based on column name?

 

[Ilya Tumanov [MS]]

Are you trying to figure out column's ordinal in the grid? If so, something
like this should do:

int ordinal =
dataGrid.TableStyles["table"].GridColumnStyles.IndexOf(dataGrid.TableStyles["table"].GridColumnStyles["column"]);

Best regards,

Ilya

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Noone has ever tried to do this based on column name?

I have a datagrid that is linked to a dataset. I want to set focus to the
datagrid at a specific column. I know the row number (0) but I can't
find an easy way to figure out where column["species"] is. Normally I
make a temporary dataGridCell and set it to be at row 0 column 1 and then
make the datagrid.currentcell = the temportary cell but I can't seem to
get the column number back to use that. Any ideas?

Jamie