Color Ragdrid row at will without Row or Cell Formatting Event Handler

[code777]

I would like to change the BackColor a datagridview row. While searching around it 's clear that I will have to access the GridDataRowElement or GridDataCellElement to do it. From that  after creating a variable of the type  we can call something  RowElement.BackColor = Color.Gray or CellElement.BackColor = Color.Gray

I have already tried this but it only colors row while the mouse is hovering at it (very strange...)

Dim rwInfo As GridViewRowInfo = myGrid.Rows(i)
myGrid.GridViewElement.TableElement.GetRowElement(rwInfo).BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.PaleGoldenrod

Now with the code below as a pointer, my problem is that I'm trying to cast a gridview row as GridDataRowElement it always results in epic failure.

For i = 0 To myGrid.Rows.Count - 1
Dim r As GridViewRowInfo = myGrid.Rows(i)
Dim rwInfo As GridViewRowInfo = myGrid.Rows(i)
For Each cInfo As GridViewCellInfo In rwInfo.Cells
Dim row As GridDataRowElement = TryCast(myGrid.Rows(i), GridDataRowElement)
Next

  For Each c In myGrid.Columns

Dim cell As GridDataCellElement = CType(rwInfo.Cells(c.Index), GridDataCellElement)
Next
Next

Could someone please point me to the right direction on how this can be done?

Thanks

[code777]

Well, the answer was steering at me in the face all along. I had to use the RowFormatting event to colour a particular row if that row's particular cell value satisfies some condition.
And then just simply subscribe to the same event any where in  the code every time you want to colour another row.

[Stefan]

Hello,

Thank you for writing.

That is correct, in order to change the appearance of rows you should use the RowFormatting event and for cells the CellFormatting event. Please refer to the following articles for more information:

• http://www.telerik.com/help/winforms/gridview-rows-formatting-rows.html
• http://www.telerik.com/help/winforms/gridview-cells-formatting-cells.html

I hope that you find this information useful
 
All the best,
Stefan
the Telerik team