How To Get the Table Row from DataGridView Row

Level: Beginner
Knowledge Required: To understand the following solution you must have knowledge of:

• Typed DataSets
• Data Tables
• DataGridView Control
• Data Binding
• Windows Forms

Description:
We use DataGridView Control to display the contents of a DataTable. For this purpose we first bind the DataTable with DataGridView Control using a BindingSource. Sometimes it is required that we need to get the DataTable's Row from DataGridView Row.

For example, we have an event in DataGridView i.e. CellDoubleClick event. This event is triggered whenever the DataGridView Cell is double clicked. In this event we are supplied with an Event Argument of type DataGridViewCellEventArgs which contains 2 Members RowIndex and ColumnIndex.

Suppose we want that whenever the Cell is double clicked in the DataGridView, we extract out that particular row of our DataTable and then perform some action.

To fully understand this consider a Student Table having Student ID, Student Name and lots of other different fields. We have bound this Table with our DataGridView control and in DataGridView control we are only displaying the Student Name. Whenever the Student Name is double clicked we want that another Window should open i.e. Student Detail Window that contains all the Fields of Table. For this purpose we will use the following code:

Private Sub StudentDataGridView_CellDoubleClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCellEventArgs) Handles StudentDataGridView.CellDoubleClick

    Dim drvStudent As DataRowView
    Dim rowStudent As StudentDataSet.StudentRow
    Dim frmNew As StudentDetailForm

    drvStudent = StudentDataGridView.Rows(e.RowIndex).DataBoundItem
    rowStudent = drvStudent.Row

    frmNew = New StudentDetailForm(rowStudent.Student_ID)
    frmNew.ShowDialog()

End Sub

As you can see following code gets the DataRowView which is actually bound with DataGridView Row

drvStudent = StudentDataGridView.Rows(e.RowIndex).DataBoundItem

Then we get the actual DataTable Row as,

drvStudent.Row