Bind GridViewComboBoxColumn Datasource programmatically

Question

On a WinForms application with C# I'm using RadGridView control of Telerik company.

One of the columns of this RadGridView is of type GridViewComboBoxColumn. I want to give this column a DataSource populated at runtime and then set the three important properties of the ComboBox (DataSource, DisplayMember, ValueMember).

How can I programmatically do this?

I've tried

DataGridViewComboBoxColumn comboIBAN = 
    rgvCheques.Columns["clmnIBAN"] as DataGridViewComboBoxColumn;

But it ends up with the following error

Error message

Don't you need `GridViewComboBoxColumn` instead of `DataGridViewComboBoxColumn` ? — V4Vendetta, Jan 23 '13 at 07:16
No @V4Vendetta it's right. I'm using `RadGridView` not `GridView` — Mahdi Tahsildari, Jan 23 '13 at 08:53

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 20 '13 at 04:14

Thanks everyone for they effort and answers, all the answers were about adding a column to the grid, what I was looking for was to point to (retrieve) the current column and change its properties, such as DataSource as the most important one.

The solution I finally came up with is written below, maybe it helps to other people looking for such answer :

((GridViewComboBoxColumn)rgvCheques.Columns["IBAN"]).DataSource = 
    lstBankAccounts.Items;

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 23 '13 at 07:10

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GridViewComboBoxColumn displays a set of predefined candidate text values in a drop down list. This column type is typically used to provide a lookup into some set of relatively static values.

To use GridViewComboBoxColumn Check this one

answered Jan 23 '13 at 07:10

andy

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Thanks @Andy, this tutorial too adds a column to the grid. – Mahdi Tahsildari Apr 20 '13 at 04:12

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 23 '13 at 07:11

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Check this out

GridViewComboBoxColumn CustomColumn= new GridViewComboBoxColumn();
CustomColumn.Name = "CustomColumn";
CustomColumn.HeaderText = "MyHeader";
CustomColumn.DataSource = this.MyBindingSource;
CustomColumn.ValueMember = "CustomID";
CustomColumn.DisplayMember = "CustomName";
CustomColumn.FieldName = "CustomID";
CustomColumn.Width = 200;
this.radGridView1.Columns.Add(CustomColumn);

Hope this helps

answered Jan 23 '13 at 07:11

Rohit

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Kyle I don't want to add the column, I already have it. I want to fill it with a datasource. -1 deserved but not performed :) And for the object names use the right casing `customColumn` means an object nad `CustomColumn` means a Class. – Mahdi Tahsildari Jan 23 '13 at 08:55

Bind GridViewComboBoxColumn Datasource programmatically

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