Conditional DataGridView Formatting

Question

I have a DataGridView. I set its .DataSource prop to be an BindingList of my own objects: a BindingList

I then created some columns fo

Answer 1

You can use the 'CellFormatting' event of the DataGridView. The DataGridViewCellFormattingEventArgs contains indexes of the row and the column of the current cell as it is being bound. I hope my code example makes some sense to you:

private void dataGridView1_CellFormatting(object sender, DataGridViewCellFormattingEventArgs e)
{
    // Compare the column to the column you want to format
    if (this.dataGridView1.Columns[e.ColumnIndex].Name == "ColumnName")
    {
        //get the IChessitem you are currently binding, using the index of the current row to access the datasource
        IChessItem item = sourceList[e.RowIndex];
        //check the condition
        if (item == condition)
        {
             e.CellStyle.BackColor = Color.Green;
        }
    }
}