Amending Column Widths In SQLCE Table & The Form That Displays That Data

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I am displaying a Form within Outlook 2010 of my SQLCE Table, but both the Table (if I "Show Table Data") and the data on the Form have Column Widths that do not show all of the data.

As in Excel, if I double-click on the line at the end of the Column Header, the Column will expand to be as big as the longest entry.

Is there a way of making this occur automatically, without manually having to double-click ?

Posted 4-Dec-12 5:07am

Gary Heath

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Teenustar · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-04T07:50:00

Solution 1

If you are using a DataGridview, there is a property AutoSizeColumnsMode. Set the value as AllCells

Posted 4-Dec-12 7:50am

Teenustar

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Gary Heath 4-Dec-12 14:06pm

Perfect, thank you

Gary Heath 4-Dec-12 14:32pm

Just a thought, is there a way, therefore, to make the Form itself, shrink (or grow if necessary, to perfectly fit the re-sized Columns ?!? I guess there must be ... I'll start looking ...

Teenustar 4-Dec-12 14:51pm

You can dock the gridview in its parent container. ( if it is the form itself) and then try with the Form Properties AutoSize and AutoSizeMode.

Gary Heath 4-Dec-12 15:47pm

Yes, I got the Docking bit & I am experimenting with AutoSize & AutoSizeMode, but I can't get it to resize as I want. If I have AutoSize set to True & AutoSizeMode set to GrowAndShrink it always opens as a tiny little window, whereas if I have it as grow only, it doesn't seem to change size ... weird !

Teenustar 4-Dec-12 15:54pm

Iam not sure. But Check out this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1607790/c-sharp-auto-resize-form-to-datagridviews-size

Gary Heath 4-Dec-12 17:46pm

Oh yuk !!! Thanks, I will keep looking & experimenting, it doesn't make sense that this can't be done !!!