How to Get the Underlying DataRow of a DataGridViewRow

23-07-2012

How to get the underlying data row of the bound data table linked to a DataGridViewRow in a DataGridView?

How to get the underlying DataRow of a DataGridView.Row?

How to get the underlying DataRow matching to a Selected Row of a DataGridView?

How to map the DataGridView row to the datasource?

How to get back to the matching DataRow of the DataSource of a DataGridView Row?

Answer:

Use the DataBoundItem property of the DataGridViewRow in the following way.

// this code gets the matching data row of the data source bound to this data grid view (dataGridView1)
DataRow SelectedRow = ((DataRowView)(dataGridView1.SelectedRows[0].DataBoundItem)).Row;
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