Datagridview - remove part before the first column

Question

I was wondering if when using the datagridview control you can remove the thing that looks like a column before the 1st column. I think its used to select rows but not sure what its called.

Solution

Here is a solution for standard windows controls in C#.

To hide the row headers you can use the property RowHeadersVisible and set it to false.

To make the row headers smaller you can use the property RowHeadersWidth.

I hope this helps you.

Comments

[libjup]

it actually is RowHeadersVisible and not RowHeaderVisible; tried to update post but it weren't enough modified characters...

[Jo Smo]

A link to the windows forms DataGridView RowHeadersVisible property msdn documentation: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/…

[Abhay Bh]

Thanks. This helped. I wonder why do we need to click the column though! Any idea how to hide it by-default? Let me know.