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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

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