Confused with Visual Studios DataGridView?

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I have a DataGridView in C# and i am able to edit what is in it while the program is active but i am wondering how to add data to it programmatically. This way when the program starts i can already have data in their. By the way, this is all using windows forms. Thanks!

~I am getting data from a flat text file. if you don't know what this is it is basically using a text file as a database in a more sloppy way. So for each line of data coming in from the text file, i want to split up the line and put it into a DataGridView.

Data? What data? Where do you get this initial data? From a database, from a file, manually defined? Add more context please — Steve, Aug 06 '16 at 20:22
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10063770/how-to-add-a-new-row-to-datagridview-programmatically — Jim Hewitt, Aug 06 '16 at 20:27
You can put data in a `BindingList` or a `DataTable` and the assign it to `DataSource` of `DataGridView`. You can fill the `BindingList` or `DataTable` from database or manually add items to them in `Load` event of form. — Reza Aghaei, Aug 06 '16 at 20:29
@JimHewitt thanks so much for the answer! Exactly what i was looking for! — cwsl26, Aug 06 '16 at 20:38

Peter Bill · Answer 1 · 2016-08-06T21:36:18.063

If you don't want to use data binding, this pattern works well

string[] row = new string[numColumns];
List<string> lines;
// Add code here to read and parse your file
// Each file line is added to lines
  foreach (var line in lines)
  {
        // Split the line into fields, tab assumed here
        string[] fields= line.Split(new char[] { '\t' });
        // Add validation of file contents
        row[0] = fields[0];
        row[1] = fields[1];
        // etc.
        dataGridView1.Rows.Add(row);
    }

Confused with Visual Studios DataGridView?

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