DataGridView AutoFit and Fill

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I have 3 columns in my DataGridView  What I am trying to do is have the first 2 columns auto fit to the width of the content  and have the 3rd column fill the remaining space   Is it possible to do in WinForms  I am loading my data from an EF DataContext if that s any use  I have included an image of how it currently looks

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You need to use the DataGridViewColumn AutoSizeMode property    You can use one of these values for column 0 and 1      AllCells  The column width adjusts to fit the contents of all cells in   the column  including the header cell     AllCellsExceptHeader  The column width adjusts to fit the contents of all cells in the column  excluding the header cell     DisplayedCells    The column width adjusts to   fit the contents of all cells in the column that are in rows currently   displayed onscreen  including the header cell     DisplayedCellsExceptHeader    The column width adjusts to fit the   contents of all cells in the column that are in rows currently   displayed onscreen  excluding the header cell    Then you use the Fill value for column 2     The column width adjusts so that the widths of all columns exactly fills the display area of the control      this DataGridView1 Columns 0  AutoSizeMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode DisplayedCells  this DataGridView1 Columns 1  AutoSizeMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode DisplayedCells  this DataGridView1 Columns 2  AutoSizeMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode Fill      As pointed out by other users  the default value can be set at datagridview level with DataGridView AutoSizeColumnsMode property   this DataGridView1 Columns 0  AutoSizeMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode DisplayedCells  this DataGridView1 Columns 1  AutoSizeMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode DisplayedCells    could be   this DataGridView1 AutoSizeColumnsMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode DisplayedCells      Important note   If your grid is bound to a datasource and columns are auto-generated  AutoGenerateColumns property set to True   you need to use the DataBindingComplete event to apply style AFTER columns have been created      In some scenarios  change cells value by code for example   I had to call DataGridView1 AutoResizeColumns    to refresh the grid

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public static void Fill DataGridView dgv2               try                       dgv   dgv2              foreach  DataGridViewColumn GridCol in dgv Columns                                for  int j   0  j  lt  GridCol DataGridView ColumnCount  j                                          GridCol DataGridView Columns j  AutoSizeMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode Fill                      GridCol DataGridView Columns j  AutoSizeMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode AllCells                      GridCol DataGridView Columns j  FillWeight   1                                                    catch  Exception ex                        MessageBox Show ex Message   Error   MessageBoxButtons OK  MessageBoxIcon Error

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Not tested but you can give a try  Tested and working  I hope you can play with AutoSizeMode of DataGridViewColum to achieve what you need   Try setting   dataGridView1 DataSource   yourdatasource  lt --set datasource before you set AutoSizeMode    Set the following properties after setting datasource dataGridView1 Columns 0  AutoSizeMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode AllCells  dataGridView1 Columns 1  AutoSizeMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode AllCells  dataGridView1 Columns 2  AutoSizeMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode Fill    This should work

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Just change Property from property of control   AutoSizeColumnsMode Fill  OR By code  dataGridView1 AutoSizeColumnsMode DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode Fill

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public void setHeight DataGridView src        src Height  src ColumnHeadersVisible   src ColumnHeadersHeight   0     src Rows OfType lt DataGridViewRow gt    Where row   gt  row Visible  Sum row   gt  row Height

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Try this      DGV AutoResizeColumns      DGV AutoSizeColumnsMode DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode AllCells

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To build on AlfredBr s answer  if you hid some of your columns  you can use the following to auto-size all columns and then just have the last visible column fill the empty space   myDgv AutoSizeColumnsMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode AllCells  myDgv Columns GetLastColumn DataGridViewElementStates Visible  DataGridViewElementStates None  AutoSizeMode        DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode Fill

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Try doing    AutoSizeColumnMode   Fill

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This is my favorite approach      dataGrid DataBindingComplete     o       gt                var dataGridView   o as DataGridView          if  dataGridView    null                       dataGridView AutoSizeColumnsMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode AllCells             dataGridView Columns dataGridView ColumnCount-1  AutoSizeMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode Fill

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This is what I have done in order to get the column  first name  fill the space when all the columns cannot do it   When the grid go to small the column  first name  gets almost invisible  very thin  so I can set the DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode to AllCells as the others visible columns  For performance issues it  s important to set them to None before data binding it and set back to AllCell in the DataBindingComplete event handler of the grid  Hope it helps   private void dataGridView1 Resize object sender  EventArgs e                int ColumnsWidth   0          foreach DataGridViewColumn col in dataGridView1 Columns                        if  col Visible  ColumnsWidth    col Width                     if  ColumnsWidth  lt dataGridView1 Width                        dataGridView1 Columns  first name   AutoSizeMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode Fill                    else if  dataGridView1 Columns  first name   Width  lt  10  dataGridView1 Columns  first name   AutoSizeMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode AllCells

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