Linq DataGridview Set column from textbox to combobox

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The easy part of this implementation was done pretty quickly. I created a linq query and set it as the datasource of my datagridview. what i am now trying to do is set one of the columns, created by the linq query, to a datagridviewcomboboxcolumn. also i want this columns datasource to be an array of strings, not another database table.

what i have done currently is adding an additional column as datagridviewcomboboxcolumn and manually changed the database property to the selected item. but with this solution comes one big problem: when the form reloads i am unable to restore the selected items to be the 'formattedvalue' property of each combobox.I am not posting that code, because except to that point it works well.

Posted 30-Aug-11 20:27pm

pritdesai

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Ganesan Senthilvel · Answer 1 · 2011-08-31T18:32:00

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Alternative solution is to write a stored procedure in the back end, which fetches the data base elements/columns and the user populated data. With this approach, you can assign the direct source from DB.

Posted 31-Aug-11 18:32pm

Ganesan Senthilvel

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pritdesai 1-Sep-11 4:51am

okay but at this point i am still not able to modify the table at runtime. i now came to the conclusion to do everything manually using this guys work: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/list/CustomListView.aspx. The performance is not that good but with listView I have access to every single aspect of the table. IMHO the datagridview solution is a complete failure.