>In my application, I have a DataGridViewbuttonColumn manually added to my DataGridView that I use to zoom in on a record. It works great.
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>I want to try to pretty up the button a little bit. Instead of just saying "Zoom", I would like a button with a magnifying glass on it, or something like that. Does anybody know how to do this?
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>Hey Mike,
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>There are probably dozens of ways to do this. Here's how I do it, by adding an icon column. I create a ButtonField object, set some properties, and add the object to the GridView.
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>ButtonField obt = new ButtonField();
>obt.CommandName = "Select";
>obt.ButtonType = ButtonType.Image;
>obt.ImageUrl = "openfolder.ico";   // or whatever icon you want
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>this.grdResults.Columns.Add(obt);
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>I'm guessing you already know this - clicking the button will fire the gridview's SelectedIndexChanged event, where you can grab the current gridview row.
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>Let me know if that helps...
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>P.S. I just realized that my brain is fried tonight - I pasted in some code from a webforms app. good grief! Well, the code may or may not work, sorry.
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>Kevin

Here is the code that ended up working. I am not 100% satisfied as it is just an image in the column instead of a button and it might not be evident to the user that they can click it, but I think it will work better than a button with "View" written on it.

        imageColumn = New DataGridViewImageColumn
        imageColumn.Width = 16
        imageColumn.ValuesAreIcons = False
        imageColumn.Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(myStream)
        imageColumn.ReadOnly = True
        grdPreapprovals.Columns.Add(imageColumn)