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Set the Current Cell
Updated on Sep 24, 2025
You can set the current cell of the RadGridView control by using the CurrentCellInfo class.
Example 1 demonstrates how to so in the Loaded event handler by specifying an item from the control's Items collection and a column from the Columns collection.
Example 1: Setting the current cell via an item and a column
C#
private void gridView_Loaded(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
gridView.CurrentCellInfo = new GridViewCellInfo(gridView.Items[5], gridView.Columns["Number"]);
gridView.Focus();
}Please note that for this to work, the control must be loaded.
Figure 1 demonstrates that the current cell is set and at this point if you hit F2 that cell will go in edit mode.
RadGridView with changed current cell
