Set focus on DataGridView cell

Setting the focus on a DataGridView cell is a little bit tricky, so this is how you can do it:

Set focus on a DataGridView cell

This code sample will set the editing cursor right in the first cell of the current row in DataGridView. The cell will be ready to get its new data.

C#

DataGridViewRow rowToSelect = this.dgvJobList.CurrentRow;

rowToSelect.Selected = true;

 

rowToSelect.Cells[0].Selected = true;

this.dgvJobList.CurrentCell = rowToSelect.Cells[0];

Auto select the DataGridView cell content

If the focused cell already contains some data an you want to auto select the cell's content right after got the focus, you have to add the "BeginEdit" line, like below:

C#

DataGridViewRow rowToSelect = this.dgvJobList.CurrentRow;

rowToSelect.Selected = true;

 

rowToSelect.Cells[0].Selected = true;

this.dgvJobList.CurrentCell = rowToSelect.Cells[0];

this.dgvJobList.BeginEdit(true);