Originally Posted by Jugortha

Yes you can

implement the cell

private void dataGridView1_CellClick(object sender,
DataGridViewCellEventArgs e)
{

dataGridView1.BackgroundImage = Image.FromFile(imagepath);
}

Originally Posted by LizR

yes you can, and with a small amount of imagination it was very obvious and very simple. In fact MSDN shows almost how to do it, it shows how you draw something for a given cell and it took me like 2 minutes of my life which I bothered to do.

And you guys wonder why I get narked? Tiny amount of reading of msdn.

where b is a bitmap loaded in or such.

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e.PaintContent(e.CellBounds);
            if (dataGridView1.CurrentCell.RowIndex == e.RowIndex && dataGridView1.CurrentCell.ColumnIndex == e.ColumnIndex)
            {
                e.Graphics.DrawImage(b, e.CellBounds);
            }
            else
            {
                e.PaintBackground(e.CellBounds, true);
            }
            e.Handled = true;

e.PaintContent(e.CellBounds); if (dataGridView1.CurrentCell.RowIndex == e.RowIndex && dataGridView1.CurrentCell.ColumnIndex == e.ColumnIndex) { e.Graphics.DrawImage(b, e.CellBounds); } else { e.PaintBackground(e.CellBounds, true); } e.Handled = true;