I'm developing user control in C# Visual Studio 2010 - a kind of "quick find" textbox for filtering datagridview. It should work for 3 types of datagridview datasources: DataTable, DataBinding and DataSet.
My problem is with filtering DataTable from DataSet object, which is displayed on DataGridView.
There could be 3 cases (examples for standard WinForm application with DataGridView and TextBox on it) - first 2 are working OK, I've problem with 3rd one:
1. datagridview.DataSource = dataTable : it works
so I can filter by setting: dataTable.DefaultView.RowFilter = "country LIKE '%s%'";
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
dt.Columns.Add("id", typeof(int));
dt.Columns.Add("country", typeof(string));
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 1, "Belgium" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 2, "France" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 3, "Germany" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 4, "Spain" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 5, "Switzerland" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 6, "United Kingdom" });
dataGridView1.DataSource = dt;
}
private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("DataSource type BEFORE = " + dataGridView1.DataSource.GetType().ToString());
dt.DefaultView.RowFilter = string.Format("country LIKE '%{0}%'", textBox1.Text);
MessageBox.Show("DataSource type AFTER = " + dataGridView1.DataSource.GetType().ToString());
}
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
BindingSource bs = new BindingSource();
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
dt.Columns.Add("id", typeof(int));
dt.Columns.Add("country", typeof(string));
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 1, "Belgium" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 2, "France" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 3, "Germany" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 4, "Spain" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 5, "Switzerland" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 6, "United Kingdom" });
bs.DataSource = dt;
dataGridView1.DataSource = bs;
}
private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("DataSource type BEFORE = " + dataGridView1.DataSource.GetType().ToString());
bs.Filter = string.Format("country LIKE '%{0}%'", textBox1.Text);
MessageBox.Show("DataSource type AFTER = " + dataGridView1.DataSource.GetType().ToString());
}
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
dt.Columns.Add("id", typeof(int));
dt.Columns.Add("country", typeof(string));
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 1, "Belgium" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 2, "France" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 3, "Germany" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 4, "Spain" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 5, "Switzerland" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 6, "United Kingdom" });
ds.Tables.Add(dt);
dataGridView1.DataSource = ds;
dataGridView1.DataMember = dt.TableName;
}
private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("DataSource type BEFORE = " + dataGridView1.DataSource.GetType().ToString());
//it is not working
ds.Tables[0].DefaultView.RowFilter = string.Format("country LIKE '%{0}%'", textBox1.Text);
MessageBox.Show("DataSource type AFTER = " + dataGridView1.DataSource.GetType().ToString());
}
private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("DataSource type BEFORE = " + dataGridView1.DataSource.GetType().ToString(), ds.Tables[0].DefaultView.Count.ToString());
DataView dv = ds.Tables[0].DefaultView;
dv.RowFilter = string.Format("country LIKE '%{0}%'", textBox1.Text);
dataGridView1.DataSource = dv;
MessageBox.Show("DataSource type AFTER = " + dataGridView1.DataSource.GetType().ToString(), ds.Tables[0].DefaultView.Count.ToString());
}
private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("DataSource type BEFORE = " + dataGridView1.DataSource.GetType().ToString(), ds.Tables[0].DefaultView.Count.ToString());
DataSet dsTmp = (DataSet)(dataGridView1.DataSource); //<--- it is OK
DataView dv = ds.Tables[0].DefaultView;
dv.RowFilter = string.Format("country LIKE '%{0}%'", textBox1.Text);
dataGridView1.DataSource = dv; //<--- here the source is changeing from DataSet to DataView
MessageBox.Show("DataSource type AFTER = " + dataGridView1.DataSource.GetType().ToString(), ds.Tables[0].DefaultView.Count.ToString());
dsTmp = (DataSet)(dataGridView1.DataSource); //<-- throws an exception: Unable to cast object DataView to DataSet
}
I just spent an hour on a similar problem. For me the answer turned out to be embarrassingly simple.
(dataGridViewFields.DataSource as DataTable).DefaultView.RowFilter = string.Format("Field = '{0}'", textBoxFilter.Text);