Adding Button to DataGridView in VB.NET

The DataGridView control is highly configurable and extensible, and it provides many properties, methods, and events to customize its appearance and behavior. The DataGridView control provides TextBox, CheckBox, Image, Button, ComboBox and Link columns with the corresponding cell types. With the DataGridViewButtonColumn, you can display a column of cells that contain buttons.You can respond to user clicks in button cells by handling the DataGridView.CellClick event.

The following vb.net program shows how to add a Button in Cell of a DataGridView control. Also it showing in the DataGridView.CellClick event which button the user clicked.

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Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        DataGridView1.ColumnCount = 3
        DataGridView1.Columns(0).Name = "Product ID"
        DataGridView1.Columns(1).Name = "Product Name"
        DataGridView1.Columns(2).Name = "Product_Price"

        Dim row As String() = New String() {"1", "Product 1", "1000"}
        DataGridView1.Rows.Add(row)
        row = New String() {"2", "Product 2", "2000"}
        DataGridView1.Rows.Add(row)
        row = New String() {"3", "Product 3", "3000"}
        DataGridView1.Rows.Add(row)
        row = New String() {"4", "Product 4", "4000"}
        DataGridView1.Rows.Add(row)

        Dim btn As New DataGridViewButtonColumn()
        DataGridView1.Columns.Add(btn)
        btn.HeaderText = "Click Data"
        btn.Text = "Click Here"
        btn.Name = "btn"
        btn.UseColumnTextForButtonValue = True

    End Sub
    Private Sub DataGridView1_CellClick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCellEventArgs) Handles DataGridView1.CellClick
        If e.ColumnIndex = 3 Then
            MsgBox(("Row : " + e.RowIndex.ToString & "  Col : ") + e.ColumnIndex.ToString)
        End If
    End Sub
End Class