Help w/ winform DataGrid to DataGridView transition (best practice?)

Greetings,

We're starting to transition our legacy C# apps from earlier versions to
VS2008 versions.

Many of our apps allow the user to select a row from a DataGrid into a 'Data
Edit' area composed of Text, Combo, etc boxes that contain the individual
columns of the DataGrid row.

To extract information from the user selected DataGrid row we use the
following code ....

Given a DataGrid / DataGridView named "dgResults"

string sSelectedDirID = null;
string sSelectedGridID = null;
DataRowView oDrvSelectedGridRow = null;
try
{
oDrvSelectedGridRow =
(DataRowView)this.BindingContext[dgResults.DataSource,
dgResults.DataMember].Current;
sSelectedDirID = oDrvSelectedGridRow["Dir_id"].ToString().Trim();
sSelectedGridID = oDrvSelectedGridRow["Grid_id"].ToString().Trim();
}
catch { return;}

The best translation of the code above for a DataGridView seems to be
something like

string sSelectedDirID = null;
string sSelectedGridID = null;
DataRowView oDrvSelectedGridRow = null;
try
{
oDrvSelectedGridRow = this.dgResults.CurrentRow.DataBoundItem AS
DataRowView;
sSelectedDirID = oDrvSelectedGridRow["Dir_id"].ToString().Trim();
sSelectedGridID = oDrvSelectedGridRow["Grid_id"].ToString().Trim();
}
catch { return;}

Anyone have a better approach ?

Thanks in advance.

Barry in Oregon.

Dear Barry,

To extract information from the user selected DataGridView row, we can
access the value directly without accessing the data source, for example,

string sSelectedDirID =
this.dataGridView1.CurrentRow.Cells["Dir_id"].Value.ToString();
string sSelectedGridID =
this.dataGridView1.CurrentRow.Cells["Grid_id"].Value.ToString();

Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to let me knonw.

Sincerely,
Zhi-Xin Ye
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Thank you! Much better than having to tag the binding manager!

Barry in Oregon


"Zhi-Xin Ye [MSFT]" <v-zhye@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:lCTDII1BJHA.424@TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl...
> Dear Barry,
>
> To extract information from the user selected DataGridView row, we can
> access the value directly without accessing the data source, for example,
>
> string sSelectedDirID =
> this.dataGridView1.CurrentRow.Cells["Dir_id"].Value.ToString();
> string sSelectedGridID =
> this.dataGridView1.CurrentRow.Cells["Grid_id"].Value.ToString();
>
> Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to let me knonw.
>
> Sincerely,
> Zhi-Xin Ye
> Microsoft Managed Newsgroup Support Team
>
> Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and
> suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
> feel free to let my manager know what you think of the level of service
> provided. You can send feedback directly to my manager at:
> msdnmg@microsoft.com.
>
> ==================================================
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> Engineer within 1 business day is acceptable. Please note that each follow
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> professional working with you may need further investigation to reach the
> most efficient resolution. The offering is not appropriate for situations
> that require urgent, real-time or phone-based interactions or complex
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> handled working with a dedicated Microsoft Support Engineer by contacting
> Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) at
> http://support.microsoft.com/select/...tance&ln=en-us.
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> rights.
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Dear Barry,

I'm glad that my suggestion helped!
And, yes, the address form you used is correct, my family name is Ye, and
I'm male. :-)

Have a nice day!

Sincerely,
Zhi-Xin Ye
Microsoft Managed Newsgroup Support Team

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suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
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