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Access Bindingsource Column Value

To update a column value in a BindingSource with code, you need to cast the Current property to the specific type it represents, such as a DataRowView. Then you can access the column value using indexing syntax on the cast object, like ((DataRowView)CustomersBindingSource.Current)["CustomerID"] = Guid.NewGuid();. The Current property itself returns a generic object that doesn't support indexing, so casting is required to access columns by name.

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Access Bindingsource Column Value

To update a column value in a BindingSource with code, you need to cast the Current property to the specific type it represents, such as a DataRowView. Then you can access the column value using indexing syntax on the cast object, like ((DataRowView)CustomersBindingSource.Current)["CustomerID"] = Guid.NewGuid();. The Current property itself returns a generic object that doesn't support indexing, so casting is required to access columns by name.

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Access bindingsource column value

Access bindingsource column value


Question
How can I update a column value in a binding source with code?
I am trying for something similar to this:
CustomersBindingSource.AddNew();
CustomersBindingSource.Current["CustomerID"] = Guid.NewGuid();

This code currently errors stating: "Cannot apply indexing with [] to an expression of type
'object'".
Any help re-writing this is greatly appreciated!

1 Answer
BindingSource's Current property is very generic in what it returns: type object. Object
doesn't define an indexer so your [] doesn't work. What you need to do is cast the
Current property to the (more-specific) type of what it really is.
For example, if Current is really a DataRowView, you could write:
DataRowView current = (DataRowView)CustomersBindingSource.Current;
current["CustomerID"] = Guid.NewGuid();

Hope this helps,


Ben

How to select current column specific value from


BindingSource
label1.text = ((DataRowView)this.BindingSource1.Current).Row["PO"].ToString();

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