Formatting a column in a Datagridview

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cameljs18@yahoo.com - 08 Feb 2008 11:11 GMT

I have a datagridview but its datasource changes to different
datatable each time i do a search.When a certain table is the
datasource i want all the cells in that column to have three decimals
after the commer eg. #.### how do i do this.

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RobinS - 16 Feb 2008 07:18 GMT

Have you checked out the CellStyle.Format property for that column? For
example, this sets the format for a column to short date:

DataGridViewCellStyle dgvCellStyle = new DataGridViewCellStyle();
dgvCellStyle.Format = "d";
theSpeicficDGVColumn.DefaultCellStyle = dgvCellStyle;

RobinS.
GoldMail, Inc.
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>I have a datagridview but its datasource changes to different
> datatable each time i do a search.When a certain table is the
> datasource i want all the cells in that column to have three decimals
> after the commer eg. #.### how do i do this.

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