Insert datagridview column values into an Array c#

Question

In my form I have this DataGridView (grid1), filled from a sqllite database.

I want select the column with the name "cap" and insert the column's values into an array. How can I do?

1. I don't find a way to select the column cap by name, so I decided to indicate it with the index, but I don't like this way..
2. I don't know ho to insert these values into an array. there are a lot of columns/cell method but I don't figured out which one can help me!

I tryed to do this way (from an old answer here in the site) but it gives me error of "out of bounded matrix"

     int[] wareCap = new int[grid1.Rows.Count];
       ... 
     //How I filled my dgv, if this can help
    var context = new ForliCesenaEntities2(); 
     BindingSource bi1 = new BindingSource();  
    bi1.DataSource = context.warehouses.ToList();
    grid1.DataSource = bi1;
    grid1.Refresh();

    //How I try to insert the values into int[] wareCap 
    for (int i = 0; i<(grid1.Rows.Count-1); i++)
    wareCap[i] = Convert.ToInt16(grid1.Rows[i].Cells[1].Value);

Thanks in advice

Answer 1

First you gridview has to be filled with values, then:

List<int> intValues = new List<int>();
foreach (DataGridViewRow row in grid.Rows)
{
    intValues.Add(int.Parse(row.Cells["cap"].Value.ToString()));
}

int[] array = intValues.ToArray();

should do the trick.

Alternatively, you could use LINQ.

int[] intArray = dataGridView1.Rows
                .Cast<DataGridViewRow>()
                .Select(row => int.Parse(row.Cells["cap"].Value.ToString())).ToArray();

UPDATE:

The above solution might crash if the DataGridView's AllowUserToAddRows property is set to true. Because in that case your last row is the row for entering a new record, the Value is null, so invoking the ToString method on it causes a NullReferenceException.

I see two possibilities:

• set your datagridview's AllowUserToAddRows property to false (but the user won't be able to add new rows),
• use the following solution

Check if the row is the row for entering a new record:

int[] intArray = dataGridView1.Rows
                .Cast<DataGridViewRow>()
                .Where(row => !row.IsNewRow)
                .Select(row => Convert.ToInt32(row.Cells["cap"].Value.ToString())).ToArray();

Answer 2

You already got all your values in a List, because you do sth. like this:

bi1.DataSource = context.warehouses.ToList();

You can easily store this in a reference:

var values = context.warehouses.ToList();
bi1.DataSource = values;

Your Grid is build based on Objekts in this List. So this should build your array:

int[] array = new int[values.Count];
int counter = 0;
foreach (var object in values)
{
  array[counter++] = object.CAP;
}

Answer 3

int[] wareCap = new int[grid1.Rows.Count];
foreach(DataGridViewRow row in grid1.Rows)
{
    wareCap.Add(Convert.ToInt32(cell["cap"].Value.ToString()));
}