I suggested you to look at the StrataFlix sample application which uses the new enhanced list.

A single event, the MouseClick event is used to handle all this in .NET controls like this:

And if all you want is to show a shortcut menu (ContextMenuStrip in .NET) all you need to do is add a SF ThemedContextMenuStrip to your form, add all the items you want then add that menu to the form's property ContextMenuStrip and you are done, not need to manage it via the right click like in VFP. 

BTW, StrataFlix Main Form also have a sample of a ThemedContextMenuStrip.

Edhy Rijo

Could you add a context menu to the grid?  I have done this with the DevExpress XtraGrid...works quite well.

Bill

I used the listview quite a bit in VFP

And after your last reply, I looked at the ListView in Strataframe.

It also had no RightCLick event that I could hook in to. I will re-visite this issue after my meeting with the client

I truely appreciate all of the help you ave given me.

The time and effort you are putting on the grid is good for learning, but taking a 10 minute look at the listview in StrataFlix will give you all the things you are trying to do manually and much more. 

Trust me I've been there, and did the same thing until I understood that the SF listview is not like the one in VFP which I hardly used.

Edhy Rijo

Yes. I found that event. What I couldn't find was a way to set the SelectedRow in the grid.

Yep, MouseClick is the general one.  There's also a bunch of Mouse* methods like MouseDown and MouseUp you can handle.  Also, the grid has CellClick and CellDoubleClick, and ones like ColumnHeaderMouseClick and ColumnHeaderMouseDoubleClick.  Almost all of those will have MouseEventArgs which will tell you the mouse button that was used.  Just test on e.Button == MouseButtons.Right or something like that in your handler and you should be in business.

It's probably called MouseClick or PreviewMouseClick.  The event args will tell you which button(s) was clicked to raise the event.

Color me stupid, but I do not see any RightClick event in the DataGridView that I can handle

If you can tell me where it is, I would be happy to hook into it

Since I practically have this working the way I want, I will take that advice in the future and refactor this form after I have enoough cranked out to show the client at our next meeting

Thanks for the advice.

Yep, 100% agree with Edhy on this one. The listview can't be beat in most situations. There are still those areas where you need a grid, but you'd be surprised how robust a listview can be while still keeping the interface and design fairly simple.

To answer your question, however, you can use the Navigate, Move, or Seek methods of the business object to change the CurrentRowIndex of the business object. Navigate will update any bound controls to reflect the new CurrentRowIndex, while Move and Seek move the CurrentRowIndex pointer without updating any bound controls.

So for your grid, on a right click you could do a SeekToPrimaryKey(primaryKeyOfClickedRow) to move the CurrentRowIndex of your BO before doing the edit or delete.