Gray Out Entire Grid

[PhillD]

Does anyone have any code that would effectively cause a datagridview to appear though it is disabled. I have a situation where I enable/disable the grid and need to provide visual indication to the user.

I have been playing with it but there seems like a lot of options that need to be configured to make it appear the way, in addition, it looked like each column had to be set individually.

Is there a way to loop through all the columns and set the necessary settings?

Thanks

 

[JohnH]

DataGridView does not change appearance when Enabled=False | Microsoft Connect
Accordingly you can for example do this when toggling Enabled:

If Me.DataGridView1.Enabled Then
    Me.DataGridView1.Enabled = False
    Me.DataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = SystemColors.Control
    Me.DataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle.ForeColor = SystemColors.GrayText
    Me.DataGridView1.CurrentCell = Nothing
Else
    Me.DataGridView1.Enabled = True
    Me.DataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = SystemColors.Window
    Me.DataGridView1.DefaultCellStyle.ForeColor = SystemColors.ControlText
End If

 

[PhillD]

Thanks for this, I also added

            Me.DataGridView1.ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle.BackColor = SystemColors.Control
            Me.DataGridView1.ColumnHeadersDefaultCellStyle.ForeColor = SystemColors.GrayText

for the column headers.