Move Selection Left to Right OnKeyDown Event in DataGridView.

Introduction

Code below shows how you can move selection from left to right  instead of top to bottom which is the default functionality of DataGridView. It is useful if you want to enter a complete information of single customer before moving to the other e.g., CustomerID, CustomerName, CustomerAdress, etc.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace DGV
{
    public class DGV : DataGridView
    {
      
        private  bool moveLeftToRight = false;     

        public bool MoveLeftToRight
        {
            get { return moveLeftToRight; }
            set { moveLeftToRight = value; }      
        }

        
        protected override void OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            if (moveLeftToRight)
            {

                if (e.KeyCode  == Keys.Enter)
                {                    
                       MoveToNextCell();
                }
                else
                {
                    base.OnKeyDown(e);
                }
            }
            else
            {
                base.OnKeyDown(e);
            }
        }


        protected void MoveToNextCell()
        {
            int CurrentColumn, CurrentRow;

            //get the current indicies of the cell
            CurrentColumn = this.CurrentCell.ColumnIndex;
            CurrentRow = this.CurrentCell.RowIndex;

            int colCount = 0;

            for (int i = 0; i < this.Columns.Count; i++)
            {
                if (this.Columns[i].Visible == true)
                {
                    colCount = i; //Get the last visible column.
                }
            }        

            if (CurrentColumn == colCount  &&
                CurrentRow != this.Rows.Count - 1)
                //cell is at the end move it to the first cell of the next row
            {
                base.ProcessDataGridViewKey(new KeyEventArgs(Keys.Home));
                base.ProcessDataGridViewKey(new KeyEventArgs(Keys.Down));
            }
            else // move it to the next cell
            {               
                    base.ProcessDataGridViewKey(new KeyEventArgs(Keys.Right));
            }
        }
    }
}