Change the background colour of DataGridViewLinkColumn and also set it to underline.

Introduction

In this article, we will see how to Change the background colour of DataGridViewLinkColumn and also set it to underline.

Straight to Experiment

Let us create a "Windows Forms Application" and add a "DataGridView" as under

Next in the code behind create a class as under

public class FileInformation        
{
	public string FileName { get; set; }
	public string Download { get { return "Download File"; } }        
}

This class holds the information about "FileName" and the "Download" link.

Next let us write the code that will give a good look and fell to our grid

private void PrepareGrid()
{

	var fileNameColumn = new DataGridViewTextBoxColumn
	{
		Name = @"FileName",
		HeaderText = "File Name",
		DataPropertyName = @"FileName",
		AutoSizeMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.Fill,
		ReadOnly = false,
		Frozen = false
	};
	dataGridView1.Columns.Add(fileNameColumn);

	var downloadColumn = new DataGridViewLinkColumn

	{
		Name = @"Download",
		HeaderText = @"Download",
		DataPropertyName = @"Download",
		AutoSizeMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.Fill,
		ReadOnly = true
	};
	dataGridView1.Columns.Add(downloadColumn);
	this.dataGridView1.AllowUserToAddRows = false;
	this.dataGridView1.AllowUserToDeleteRows = false;
	this.dataGridView1.AllowUserToResizeRows = false;
	this.dataGridView1.RowHeadersVisible = false;
	this.dataGridView1.MultiSelect = false;
	this.dataGridView1.SelectionMode = DataGridViewSelectionMode.RowHeaderSelect;
	this.dataGridView1.AutoGenerateColumns = false; 
}

In the "PrepareGrid()" method, we are giving mainly a Name, HeaderText and DataPropertyName to the columns that should participate in the DataGridViewControl.

Once done, the next task is to populate the grid content

private void DisplayResult()
{
	FileInformationList = LoadItems();
	dataGridView1.DataSource = FileInformationList;
}

private List<FileInformation> LoadItems()
{
	var lstScriptInfo = new List<FileInformation>();
	for (int i = 1; i <= 5; i++)
	{
		lstScriptInfo.Add(new FileInformation { FileName = "File" + i.ToString() + ".txt" });
	}
	return lstScriptInfo;
}

The code is preety straight forward.We are preparing a list of 5 items and binding the same to the grid

Next write the code in the Cell Painting event of the DataGridViewControl

if (e.RowIndex == -1 && e.ColumnIndex == 1)
{
	e.Handled = true;
	//e.PaintBackground(e.CellBounds, true);
	e.Graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.Goldenrod, e.CellBounds);
	StringFormat sf = new StringFormat() { Alignment = StringAlignment.Center, LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center };
	Font f = new Font(e.CellStyle.Font, FontStyle.Underline);
	e.Graphics.DrawString(e.Value.ToString(), f, new SolidBrush(e.CellStyle.ForeColor), e.CellBounds, sf);
}

We are filling the rectangle with "Brushes.Goldenrod". And by using the "Font" class, we are setting the font style as underline.Finally by using the "DrawString", we are drawing the specified text string in the specified rectangle with the specified System.Drawing.Brush and System.Drawing.Font objects using the formatting attributes of the specified System.Drawing.StringFormat.

If we want to do it for all the headers, just change the code from

if (e.RowIndex == -1 && e.ColumnIndex == 1)

to

if (e.RowIndex == -1)

Conclusion

In this article we have seen as how to Change the background colour of DataGridViewLinkColumn and also set it to underline.Hope this will be helpful.Thanks for reading.Zipped file is attached