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When you enable column reordering in the DataGridView control, users can move a column to a new position by dragging the column header with the mouse. In the DataGridView control, the System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView.AllowUserToOrderColumns property value determines whether users can move columns to different positions.
There is support for this task in Visual Studio. How to: Enable Column Reordering in the Windows Forms DataGridView Control Using the Designer
How to: Enable Column Reordering in the Windows Forms DataGridView Control Using the Designer
How to: Enable Column Reordering in the Windows Forms DataGridView Control Using the Designer
How to: Enable Column Reordering in the Windows Forms DataGridView Control Using the Designer
To enable column reordering programmatically
Set the System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView.AllowUserToOrderColumns property to true.
dataGridView1.AllowUserToOrderColumns = TruedataGridView1.AllowUserToOrderColumns = true;
Compiling the Code
This example requires:
A DataGridView control named
dataGridView1.References to the System and System.Windows.Forms assemblies.
See Also
Tasks
How to: Freeze Columns in the Windows Forms DataGridView Control
Reference
DataGridView
System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView.AllowUserToOrderColumns
Other Resources
Basic Column, Row, and Cell Features in the Windows Forms DataGridView Control