Hi

I am getting the problem in changing the Default Back Color of the Column header and the Row Header of the DataGridView Control in Visual Studio 2005 C# Dot Net.

Can you please give the solution or the way around.

Ajay Kumar

Software Engineer

Metacube Softwares Pvt.Ltd.

Sitapura ,Jaipur.

You will have to draw the row and column header yourself in the paint event to change the back color. The row # is -1 for the row header and the column # is -1 for the column header.

private void dataGridView1_CellPainting(object sender, DataGridViewCellPaintingEventArgs e) { if (e.ColumnIndex == -1 && e.RowIndex >= 0) { StringFormat sf = new StringFormat(); sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center; sf.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center; e.Graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.Green, e.CellBounds ); e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(Pens.Gray, e.CellBounds); SolidBrush br = new SolidBrush(e.CellStyle.ForeColor); if (dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Selected) { br = new SolidBrush(Color.White); } e.Graphics.DrawString(dt1.Columns[e.RowIndex].ColumnName.ToString(), this.Font, br, e.CellBounds, sf ); e.Handled = true; br.Dispose(); } }

You will have to draw the row and column header yourself in the paint event to change the back color. The row # is -1 for the row header and the column # is -1 for the column header.

private void dataGridView1_CellPainting(object sender, DataGridViewCellPaintingEventArgs e) { if (e.ColumnIndex == -1 && e.RowIndex >= 0) { StringFormat sf = new StringFormat(); sf.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center; sf.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center; e.Graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.Green, e.CellBounds ); e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(Pens.Gray, e.CellBounds); SolidBrush br = new SolidBrush(e.CellStyle.ForeColor); if (dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Selected) { br = new SolidBrush(Color.White); } e.Graphics.DrawString(dt1.Columns[e.RowIndex].ColumnName.ToString(), this.Font, br, e.CellBounds, sf ); e.Handled = true; br.Dispose(); } }