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I have a datagridview. i want to select some cells which spreaded in different columns and rows. when i hit Delete key this cells should be clear. i could achieve this for cells of text type as follows (I use MS Access as the database and all fields are numbers)
C#
if (e.KeyData == Keys.Delete)
                   {

                       foreach (DataGridViewCell cell in dataGridView1.SelectedCells)
                       {
                           // if keep column in text type in MS access
                           string i = "";
                           cell.Value = (object)i;


                       }



this really clear all deleted cells. but what shall i do if the cells are numbers . how i can assign null value to these numbers while deleting.

if (e.KeyData == Keys.Delete)
                    {

                        foreach (DataGridViewCell cell in dataGridView1.SelectedCells)
                        {
                            // if keep column in text type in MS access
                            int i =0;//here i want some null value
                            cell.Value = (object)i;

                            
                        }



the above code make all deleted cell with zeros . I want to avoid that situation. I dont want to place a zero for null.

another approach I did is

if (e.KeyData == Keys.Delete)
                    {

                        foreach (DataGridViewCell cell in dataGridView1.SelectedCells)
                        {
                            
                            cell.Value = cell.DefaultNewRowValue;

                            
                        }

but this do not work when i select cells of more than one row . how i can solve it;

please somebody help please......
Posted
Updated 15-Jun-20 7:08am
v2

Let cell value as string
exmple:
int i=2
cell.value= (i).tostring()

i think you may use cell as string a use parsing
to read value ....
If(cell.value.tosting().trim()!="")
Int i = int.Parse(cell.value.tostring())
 
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[no name] 12-Oct-11 10:26am    
for more clarification dear friend, i am having a MS Access database its columns I set as numbers.the database is retrieved to the datagrid view. so when I select some cells and delete it should be empty . ie null . this is happening when I make database columns as text.by using the code


string i = ""; cell.Value = (object)i; but for numbers what should I do to get the same behaviour
[no name] 12-Oct-11 10:27am    
I just want to replace the deleted cells with nothing
SIMPLY try cell.value = null;
must work
 
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[no name] 11-Oct-11 10:43am    
the proposed cell are used to show integers . so it can't be
initialised with null . in case of string it will work
Try this for a specific cell (VB);

Datagrid.Rows(RowIndex).Cells(ColIndex).Value = DBNull.Value
 
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