Framework Bug

I had to implement some custom sorting in a DataGridView recently.  Essentially, the stakeholders wanted full column selection (like Excel) while still having the ability to sort the data based on a particular column. This particular DataGridView is data-bound.  DataGridView offers the Sort(DataGridViewColumn, ListSortDirection) method to perform this.  Nice and easy I thought: I’ll set the SelectionMode to DataGridViewSelectionMode.ColumnHeaderSelect and simply call Sort with the selected column. Well, much to my chagrin this had the side effect of making that column look selected all the time.  No matter where else I clicked, that recently sorted column looked selected (SelectedColumns had … Continue reading Trials and Tribulations of DataGridView, Column Selections, and Sorting

In recent blog post I detailed how creating a culture via the CultureInfo constructor could actually create a user-overridden culture–which could be completely different than the culture that you’ve requested by name.  Fortunately there’s a way of overriding the user override (apologies for overloading “override”) by supplying the boolean value “false” in a CultureInfo overload. As Greg Beech commented, there’s another method to create a culture–System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture.  This sounds like it does exactly what you might expect and creates a “specific” culture.  Unfortunately, this method too violates the principle of least astonishment and creates a culture that uses the user-overridden values when the culture … Continue reading Formatting/parsing for a specific culture redux