Actually, I asked a question about filtering not long ago. While not at all similiar to your question I did point out the BindingSource.Filter Property.
You could bind your DataSet/Table to a
BindingSource[
^] and use the
Filter Property[
^]. Note that filtering this way is only possible when the DataSource Implements the
IBindingListView Interface[
^]. Luckily, when working with DataSets you do not have to Implement this yourself. As you can see the
DataView[
^] already Implements this. My problem was that this Interface was not Implemented by my DataSource (a List(Of T)). Luckily you do not seem to have this problem :)
So much for the background information.
So, to sum this up:
Assign a DataSet/Table to the DataSource Property of a BindingSource.
Assign the BindingSource to the DataSource Property of your DataGridView.
Set the Filter Property of the BindingSource (an SQL-like String).
You might have to call BindingSource.ResetBindings(False).
Take care that this means, when for example fetching data from a database, you first have to get the entire dataset and then filter.
Filtering the dataset that is initially retreived is not so easy :)
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