Find a row in dataGridView based on column and value

Question

I have a dataGridView that has 3 columns: SystemId, FirstName, LastName that is bound using database information. I would like to highlight a certain row, which I would do

Answer 1

This builds on the above answer from Gordon--not all of it is my original work. What I did was add a more generic method to my static utility class.

public static int MatchingRowIndex(DataGridView dgv, string columnName, string searchValue)
        {
        int rowIndex = -1;
        bool tempAllowUserToAddRows = dgv.AllowUserToAddRows;

        dgv.AllowUserToAddRows = false; // Turn off or .Value below will throw null exception
        if (dgv.Rows.Count > 0 && dgv.Columns.Count > 0 && dgv.Columns[columnName] != null)
            {
            DataGridViewRow row = dgv.Rows
                .Cast()
                .FirstOrDefault(r => r.Cells[columnName].Value.ToString().Equals(searchValue));

            rowIndex = row.Index;
            }
        dgv.AllowUserToAddRows = tempAllowUserToAddRows;
        return rowIndex;
        }

Then in whatever form I want to use it, I call the method passing the DataGridView, column name and search value. For simplicity I am converting everything to strings for the search, though it would be easy enough to add overloads for specifying the data types.

private void UndeleteSectionInGrid(string sectionLetter)
        {
        int sectionRowIndex = UtilityMethods.MatchingRowIndex(dgvSections, "SectionLetter", sectionLetter);
        dgvSections.Rows[sectionRowIndex].Cells["DeleteSection"].Value = false;
        }