DataGridViewCell.ReadOnly Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Windows.Forms

Assembly:

System.Windows.Forms.dll

Source:

DataGridViewCell.cs

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the cell's data can be edited.

public:
 virtual property bool ReadOnly { bool get(); void set(bool value); };

[System.ComponentModel.Browsable(false)]
public virtual bool ReadOnly { get; set; }

[<System.ComponentModel.Browsable(false)>]
member this.ReadOnly : bool with get, set

Public Overridable Property ReadOnly As Boolean

Property Value

Boolean

true if the cell's data cannot be edited; otherwise, false.

Attributes

BrowsableAttribute

Exceptions

InvalidOperationException

There is no owning row when setting this property.

-or-

The owning row is shared when setting this property.

Remarks

The ReadOnly property indicates whether the data displayed by the cell can be edited. You can set ReadOnly for individual cells, or you can make an entire row or column of cells read-only by setting the DataGridViewRow.ReadOnly or DataGridViewColumn.ReadOnly properties. By default, if a cell's parent row or column is set to read-only, the child cells will adopt the same value. You can override this default behavior by setting ReadOnly for individual cells.

You can navigate to a read-only cell, and you can set a read-only cell to be the current cell.

ReadOnly only affects whether a cell is editable; it does not affect whether the user can delete rows.

See also

• DataGridView
• DataGridViewElementStates
• ReadOnly
• ReadOnly