Get text from DataGridView selected cells

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I have a DataGridView with cells from a database file that contains data  Basically  I want to get the text from the selected cells in the DataGridView and display it in a textbox at the click of the button  The code for the button click event is   Private Sub Button1 Click ByVal sender As Object  ByVal e As System EventArgs  Handles Button1 Click     Dim SelectedThings As String   DataGridView1 SelectedCells ToString     TextBox1 Text   SelectedThings End Sub   However in TextBox1 I get      System Windows Forms DataGridViewSelectedCellCollection   I m thinking it isn t as simple as it seems  I m a C developer just learning VB NET

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In this specific case  the ToString   will return the name of the object retruned by the SelectedCell Property   a collection of the currently selected cells     This behavior occurs when an object has no specific implenetation for the ToString   methods   in our case  all you have to do is to iterate the collection of the cells and to accumulate its values to a string  then push this string to the TextBox   have a look here how to implement the iteration   msdn

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DataGridView SelectedCells is a collection of cells  so it s not as simple as calling ToString   on it  You have to loop through each cell in the collection and get each cell s value instead   The following will create a comma-delimited list of all selected cells  values   C   TextBox1 Text       bool FirstValue   true  foreach DataGridViewCell cell in DataGridView1 SelectedCells        if  FirstValue                TextBox1 Text                    TextBox1 Text    cell Value ToString        FirstValue   false      VB NET  Translated from the code above   TextBox1 Text      Dim FirstValue As Boolean    True  Dim cell As DataGridViewCell For Each cell In DataGridView1 SelectedCells     If Not FirstValue Then         TextBox1 Text             End If     TextBox1 Text    cell Value ToString       FirstValue   False Next

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or  we can use something like this  dim i   dgv1 CurrentCellAddress X dim j   dgv1 CurrentCellAddress Y MsgBox dgv1 Item i j  Value ToString

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Try this   Dim i   Datagridview1 currentrow index textbox1 text   datagridview1 item columnindex  i  value   It should work

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Simply  MsgBox GridView1 CurrentCell Value ToString

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A lot of the answers on this page only apply to a single cell  and OP asked for all the selected cells   If all you want is the cell contents  and you don t care about references to the actual cells that are selected  you can just do this   Private Sub Button1 Click ByVal sender As Object  ByVal e As System EventArgs  Handles Button1 Click     Dim SelectedThings As String   DataGridView1 GetClipboardContent   GetText   Replace ChrW 9            TextBox1 Text   SelectedThings End Sub   When Button1 is clicked  this will fill TextBox1 with the comma-separated values of the selected cells

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Private Sub DataGridView1 CellClick ByVal sender As System Object                                        ByVal e As DataGridViewCellEventArgs                                        Handles DataGridView1 CellClick     MsgBox DataGridView1 Rows e RowIndex  Cells e ColumnIndex  Value  End Sub

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Or in case you just need the value of the first seleted sell  or just one selected cell if one is selected   TextBox1 Text   SelectedCells 0  Value ToString

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