How to perform Group By in a windows Data grid view

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Hi,

I have a datatable which contains say 4000 rows.. In this table there is a column "Name". What i want is that i want to show unique names in the data grid ... Is there any built in funcions for grid or do we have to do some coding to get the result??

Thanks in advance

Posted 17-Jul-13 20:50pm

Arjun Menon U.K

Updated 17-Jul-13 20:59pm

Reza Alipour Fard

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berrymaria · Answer 1 · 2013-07-17T21:05:00

Solution 1

Hi, please see this link:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/b54d2c92-6dbf-4f54-9e23-3a1303a20a93/row-grouping-in-datagridview-using-winforms[^]

Hope it helps! :)

Posted 17-Jul-13 21:05pm

berrymaria

Dineshshp · Answer 2 · 2013-07-17T21:10:00

Solution 2

Try this

C#

DataTable __tbl - GetData();

Grd.DataSource = __tbl;

// TO FILTER DISTINCT NAME

DataView __dv = __tbl.DefaultView;

DataTable __tblFiltered = __dv.ToTable(true, "Name");

Grd.DataSource = __tblFiltered;

Posted 17-Jul-13 21:10pm

Dineshshp

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Arjun Menon U.K 18-Jul-13 3:39am

this will group by name know... what i am trying to do is a grid view in which first column in Check box to select the rows, the second column the business name , then 8 other columns. i want to create a single cell for a business and it will have 8/10 rows for the remaining fileds... like this

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/a44622c0-74e1-463b-97b9-27b87513747e/windows-forms-data-controls-and-databinding-faq#faq8

but am not getting any idea how to implement this