Setting the Background Color of a Row

To set the background color of a row, set the FetchRowStyles property to fire the FetchRowStyle event.

Complete the following steps:

Set the FetchRowStyles property to True.

In the Designer

Locate the FetchRowStyles property in the Properties window and set it to True.

In Code

Add the following code to the Form_Load event:

To write code in Visual Basic

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Me.C1TrueDBGrid1.FetchRowStyles = True

To write code in C#

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this.c1TrueDBGrid1.FetchRowStyles = true;

Specify the background color of the desired rows using the FetchRowStyle event:

To write code in Visual Basic

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Private Sub C1TrueDBGrid1_FetchRowStyle(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As C1.Win.C1TrueDBGrid.FetchRowStyleEventArgs) Handles C1TrueDBGrid1.FetchRowStyle Dim S As String = C1TrueDBGrid1.Columns("Country").CellText(e.Row).ToString If S <> "Germany" Then e.CellStyle.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.LemonChiffon End If End Sub

To write code in C#

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private void c1TrueDBGrid1_FetchRowStyle(object sender, C1.Win.C1TrueDBGrid.FetchRowStyleEventArgs e) { string S = c1TrueDBGrid1.Columns("Country").CellText(e.Row).ToString; if (S != "Germany") { e.CellStyle.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.LemonChiffon; } }

What You've Accomplished

In this example, each row that does not contain the word "Germany" in the Country column has a background color of lemon chiffon: