C#

mbender wrote:

then I need to know how to write to the Textbox control from a different thread.

<code>
 // You'd probably want to do this every time the data grid changes it's data
 // so implement the DataSourceChanged event...
 private void MyDataGrid_DataSourceChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
 {
  try
  {
   // First lets get the assembly's type reference...
   Type assemblyType = MyDataGrid.GetType();
   // The DataGrid has a method called ColAutoResize (declared as private and no-one knows why)
   // We can invoke this by getting a reference to it in the MethodInfo class.
   MethodInfo methodInfo = assemblyType.GetMethod("ColAutoResize", BindingFlags.NonPublic);

   // Iterate through your columns...
   for (int i = MyDataGrid.FirstVisibleColumn; (i < MyDataGrid.VisibleColumnCount); i++)
   {
    // Invoke the ColAutoResize method, the method expects a single integer
    // column index as the parameter, so we’ll pass I as an argument in the
    // object[] array.
    methodInfo.Invoke(MyDataGrid, new object[] { i });
   }
  }
  catch (Exception ex)
  {
   // Something went horribly wrong, examine the exception and deal 
   // with it accordingly or just simply ignore it, this shouldn’t 
   // happen anyhow...
  }
 }
</code>