Forcing Default button on a gridview

Question

I\'m using gridview with templates to show and edit some information from a sql database.

When I edit and change the data in that row and then click enter it automat

Answer 1

You need to precess KeyDown or KeyPress event of the grid, and check if pressed key if Keys.Enter :

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void dataGridView1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter)
        {
            button1_Click(this, EventArgs.Empty);
        }
    }

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // Your logic here
    }
}

Answer 2

I had a similar problem and I found a very simple workaround:

1. Place a button below the GridView and make it invisible by CSS (i.e. position: relative; left: -2000px)
2. Create a Panel around the GridView and give it as DefaultButton the ID of the button we just created.
3. Write the following line of code for the click-event of the button: myGridView.UpdateRow(myGridView.EditIndex, false);

Whenever you press enter in the GridView now, the edited row will be confirmed.