Pasting excel data into a blank DataGridView - Index out of range exception
After some digging around, I found that I have to add columns first, then add a new row, get the row index of the newly created row, and then set the cell values.
Here's the updated code:
DataObject o = (DataObject)Clipboard.GetDataObject();
if (o.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text))
{
if (myDataGridView.RowCount > 0)
myDataGridView.Rows.Clear();
if (myDataGridView.ColumnCount > 0)
myDataGridView.Columns.Clear();
bool columnsAdded = false;
string[] pastedRows = Regex.Split(o.GetData(DataFormats.Text).ToString().TrimEnd("\r\n".ToCharArray()), "\r\n");
foreach (string pastedRow in pastedRows)
{
string[] pastedRowCells = pastedRow.Split(new char[] { '\t' });
if (!columnsAdded)
{
for (int i = 0; i < pastedRowCells.Length; i++)
myDataGridView.Columns.Add("col" + i, pastedRowCells[i]);
columnsAdded = true;
continue;
}
myDataGridView.Rows.Add();
int myRowIndex = myDataGridView.Rows.Count - 1;
using (DataGridViewRow myDataGridViewRow = myDataGridView.Rows[myRowIndex])
{
for (int i = 0; i < pastedRowCells.Length; i++)
myDataGridViewRow.Cells[i].Value = pastedRowCells[i];
}
}
}
}
And here it is working:
Happy to accept criticisms and useful tips on improving this. This code is quite slow...
I know it's some years later, but I was looking for a solution for this problem and found BASA's modification of Latheesan's code. It only worked partially, so modifying it, I would like to add this solution for future browsers:
private void Paste(DataGridView d)
{
DataObject o = (DataObject)Clipboard.GetDataObject();
if (o.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.StringFormat))
{
string[] pastedRows = Regex.Split(o.GetData(DataFormats.StringFormat).ToString().TrimEnd("\r\n".ToCharArray()), "\r");
int j = 0;
try { j = d.CurrentRow.Index; } catch { }
foreach (string pastedRow in pastedRows)
{
DataGridViewRow r = new DataGridViewRow();
r.CreateCells(d, pastedRow.Split(new char[] { '\t' }));
d.Rows.Insert(j, r);
j++;
}
}
}