How to hide a DataGridViewButtonCell

Question

I have a DataGridViewButtonCell in my DataGridView and I wanted to set the property Visible to True.

I have tried:

DataGridView1.Rows("number of row i want").Cells("number of cell i want").Visible = True

Unfortunately it says that the property visible is read only.

Here is the code:

Private Sub DataGridView1_CellClick(sender As Object, e As DataGridViewCellEventArgs) Handles DataGridView1.CellClick
        'does not work
        DataGridView1.Rows(e.RowIndex).Cells(6).Visible = True         
End Sub

Does anyone knows how I can achieve this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

There is no actual way to hide a DataGridViewButtonCell. Currently I can only see two options:

1. Use padding to move the button over as shown here. I will provide similar VB.NET code
2. Set the Cell to a DataGridViewTextBoxCell and set the ReadOnly property to True

Use Padding:

Private Sub DataGridView1_CellClick(sender As Object, e As DataGridViewCellEventArgs) Handles DataGridView1.CellClick
    If DataGridView1.Rows(e.RowIndex).Cells(6).GetType() Is GetType(DataGridViewButtonCell) Then
        Dim columnWidth As Integer = DataGridView1.Columns(e.ColumnIndex).Width

        Dim newDataGridViewCellStyle As New DataGridViewCellStyle With {.Padding = New Padding(columnWidth + 1, 0, 0, 0)}

        DataGridView1.Rows(e.RowIndex).Cells(6).Style = newDataGridViewCellStyle
    End If
End Sub

Use DataGridViewTextBoxCell:

Private Sub DataGridView1_CellClick(sender As Object, e As DataGridViewCellEventArgs) Handles DataGridView1.CellClick
    If DataGridView1.Rows(e.RowIndex).Cells(6).GetType() Is GetType(DataGridViewButtonCell) Then
        Dim newDataGridViewCell As New DataGridViewTextBoxCell

        DataGridView1.Rows(e.RowIndex).Cells(6) = newDataGridViewCell

        newDataGridViewCell.ReadOnly = True
    End If
End Sub

Both of these should give you the effect of not showing the button.