need assistance writing to datagridview cells

I am building a report app that will dump the results to the screen and to a file. Since it is a lot of data, I decided to go with the dataGridView because to me it just made sense (I do not have a lot of vb experience). The problem is I do not know how to manually write to this thing. If someone could give me an example of a few things with it, I can figure out the rest fairly easy. Apparently this is not done often as I cannot find a single reference in all my books on how to do this. Here is some information:

1) the name of the datagrid is resultsGrid
2) The grid has about 50 colums, all named
3) Some of the column names are: orderNum, proNum, poSo
4) I'd like to know if i could reference columns by name or by row/col location
5) I can put info in a column at a time or a row at a time if that is possible
6) I need to know how to make a new row once the information is in there.

Thanks in advance

EDIT: I forgot to mention, I am using vb 2005

DataGridView.Columns give you the column collection
DataGridView.Rows give you the row collection
To assign a value to any specific datagridviewcell when you know the cell's column and row index, you just do
DataGridView.Item(columnIndex, rowIndex).Value = [your value here]

Sweet thanks for the info

Ok I ran into a couple of problems.

1) as I was assigning values I got no error messages but the data did not show up in the datagrid

2) when i came time to write to the next line, I got a subscript out of range error

here is my code to write to the cells

Code:

---

resultsGrid.Item(0, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).orderNumber
            resultsGrid.Item(1, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).poSoNumber
            resultsGrid.Item(2, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).poSoNumber
            resultsGrid.Item(3, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).bol
            resultsGrid.Item(4, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).pickDate
            resultsGrid.Item(5, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).delDate
            resultsGrid.Item(6, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).schedTransitTime
            resultsGrid.Item(7, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).actTransitTIme
            resultsGrid.Item(8, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).transTimeDiff
            resultsGrid.Item(9, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).reasonForDiff
            resultsGrid.Item(10, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).miles
            resultsGrid.Item(11, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).fullTruck
            resultsGrid.Item(12, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).feetUsed
            resultsGrid.Item(13, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).shipname
            resultsGrid.Item(14, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).shipCity
            resultsGrid.Item(15, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).shipState
            resultsGrid.Item(16, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).shipZip
            resultsGrid.Item(17, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).consignee
            resultsGrid.Item(18, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).cCity
            resultsGrid.Item(19, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).cState
            resultsGrid.Item(20, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).cZip
            resultsGrid.Item(21, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).weight
            resultsGrid.Item(22, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).pieces
            resultsGrid.Item(23, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).freightCharge
            resultsGrid.Item(24, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).fuel
            resultsGrid.Item(25, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).acc1Type
            resultsGrid.Item(26, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).acc1Charge
            resultsGrid.Item(27, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).acc2Type
            resultsGrid.Item(28, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).acc2Charge
            resultsGrid.Item(29, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).acc3Type
            resultsGrid.Item(30, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).acc3Charge
            resultsGrid.Item(31, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).acc4Type
            resultsGrid.Item(32, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).acc4Charge
            resultsGrid.Item(33, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).acc5Type
            resultsGrid.Item(34, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).acc5Charge
            resultsGrid.Item(35, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).acc6Type
            resultsGrid.Item(36, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).acc6Charge
            resultsGrid.Item(37, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).totalAcc
            resultsGrid.Item(38, loopCount).Value = orderArray(loopCount).netRev

---

Where do you set the value of loopCount? What the upper bound for it? what's the upperbound of orderArray? How many rows do you have in resultsGrid? Those are the questions you should ask yourself whenever you run into "index out of range" exception. And keep in mind that collections/arrays are zero based index, so for example, if you have an array with 50 elements, the index goes from 0 to 49 instead of 1 to 50.

The initial resultsGrid is empty. I am trying to populate it a column at a time. There is only 1 row a data per loop cycle.

loopCount is initiated just before the loop that this code is in. The loop does a lot.

basically this app runs 5 queries. The first one gets most of the information, and the other 4 get the rest of the information based on the initial query.

I hate having a lot of big loops as I see it a waste, so instead of gathering all the information in several loops then adding another one to display it, I created one loop to get the initial information, and one big loop to do the rest (the other queries are rather small compared to the first one).

I tested the validity of the loop before adding the output statements to make sure all the count variables work and so on. I tend to do things in small steps.

Since there will be only one row of data per loop cycle, I used the loopCount to save for making another variable.

I do not get the subscript out of range error until the second pass. First pass generated no errors.

Wait a second... Are you saying that you're running some queries? Are they database queries? If they are, you can use databinding and it will take care the rest for you... I need more info here. What's the source of the data? How do you you get the data from that source? Post any relevant code too.

I got it to work. I used a different technique. Someone suggested that i create an object with the exact size of the row i was writing too, add the data into the object and use the rows.add method to add an entire row at a time.

However, I still want to know how to add data a column at a time and see the results, in addition to creating a different row. This info will be useful on projects in which I can't add entire rows at a time.


I had started to go the way of databinding, but I did know know enough to use them. I also tend to stay away from databinding as I feel I have more control doing it manual (I am sure that will change as I get more comfortable with visual basic as I am a Java guy).

The data comes form an oracle 8i database from which I only have read access too.

There is nothing to be afraid of using data bindings. And since you said the data comes from an Oracle8i DB, I assume that you're using ADO.Net to get the data. If you're not, I strongly suggest that you do. It'll make your life a lot easier. Basically you create a DataSet or DataTable, create a connection object, and a DataAdapter object. You then use the DataAdapter to fill your dataset/datatable with the data that you query for. Once you have the dataset/datatable filled, you simply assign it to the DataGridView.DataSource property and databindings will take place. To modify the data in the grid, you modify the datasource of the grid, which is the datatable it is bound to. It's a lot simpler than what you may think it is.

I'll play around with it to get more familiar with it. After all, I do like things that make life easier.

Thanks for all the suggestions.