Well it was easy to get the TableStyles.Count to be different than 0, just add a tablestyle :), but I still get the same exception thrown.

Any idea?

Einar

>Kevin,
>Your assumption was correct, it is for a WinForm datagrid.
>I dug the CoDe magazine out with your article. This must have been where I got the idea about saving the column widths from (and here I thought I came up with that great idea <s>).
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>An exception is thrown when I run the following code:
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>MessageBox.Show(this.dataGrid2.TableStyles[0].GridColumnStyles[10].Width.ToString());
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>The exception that was thrown was:
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>System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range.  Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
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>I did some investigation and it turns out that:
>this.dataGrid2.TableStyles.Count is equal to 0
>so that must be the problem. VisibleColumnCount is equal to 16 in my case.
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>Any idea why TableStyles.Count is equal to 0 (zero)?
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>Einar
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>>Hey, Einar,
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>>Just to follow up on what Vlad responded with - you should be able to accomplish this with the Winforms datagrid. (This was posted in the Winforms area, so I assume you're talking about the Winforms grid...if not, then you can ignore this message).
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>>But if it is for the winforms grid, tip #13 from my dataGrid article in CoDe shows how to save grid columns widths to an XML settings file. You can grab the column widths from a grid's tablestyle...
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>>myGrid.TableStyles[0].GridColumnStyles[nColumnNumber].Width;
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>>Hope this helps...
>>Kevin