How to exclude or trim blank cells from datagridview using RowFilter in vb.net

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I'm trying to find a way to delete or trim blank cells in my DataGridView on import. I found a few things on-line about the row filter that works with the data source.

Right now this is how I'm declaring my data source:

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DataGridView1.DataSource = DS.Tables(0).DefaultView

If anyone can give me some suggestions or tell me how to trim the blank cells with the row filter I would greatly appreciate it!

Posted 7-Aug-13 9:08am

CAS1224

Updated 7-Aug-13 9:17am

André Kraak

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Kschuler · Answer 1 · 2013-08-08T09:37:00

See MSDN article DataView.RowFilter Property[^]

To use it, you assign it a string that has something similar to the WHERE portion of an SQL statement. And you don't need to set the DataSource to the DataView object...you'd still set it to the DataTable object, but since the DataTable's DataView will have the filter, so will the grid...so you could do something like this:

VB

DataGridView1.DataSource = DS.Tables(0)
DataGridView1.DataSource.DefaultView.RowFilter = "columnThatMightHaveBlanks<>''"