The wonders of DataGridView

[ddanbe]

I was wondering why are there so many methods for adding a row to a DataGridView consisting of textboxes.
I have 4, if you find more let me know.
Have made a WindowsFormsApp and put on it a DataGridView, with 3 standard columns to it and a button with the following code.

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            AddMethod1();
            AddMethod2();
            AddMethod3();
            AddMethod4();
        }

        private void AddMethod1()
        {
            DataGridViewRow dgvR = new DataGridViewRow();

            for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
            {
                DataGridViewCell dgvC = new DataGridViewTextBoxCell();
                dgvC.Value = "RowCell" + i.ToString();
                dgvR.Cells.Add(dgvC);
            }
            this.dataGridView1.Rows.Add(dgvR);
        }

        private void AddMethod2()
        {
            string[] CellStrs = new string[3];
            for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
            {
                CellStrs[i] = "RowCell" + i.ToString();
            }
            this.dataGridView1.Rows.Add(CellStrs);
        }

        private void AddMethod3()
        {
            const int cRow = 2;
            this.dataGridView1.Rows.Add();
            for (int col = 0; col < 3; col++)
            {
                this.dataGridView1[col, cRow].Value = "RowCell" + col.ToString();
            }           
        }

        private void AddMethod4()
        {
            const int cRow = 3;
            this.dataGridView1.Rows.Add();
            for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
            {
                this.dataGridView1.Rows[cRow].Cells[i].Value = "RowCell" + i.ToString();
            }
        }

Don't mind the hard coding, I would like to know if some method is sometimes more preferable over another, or does it not matter?

[mcriscolo]

Can't say if one is better than the other - I suppose it just gives the developer the flexibility of choosing a method based on the data he/she has in-hand. Methods 1 & 2 are closely related to each other (build an object and hand it in via a single "Add" call), while 3 & 4 are closely related (use indexes/iterate the collection to insert at a given location).

Of course, there is also the ability to load an entire data set into a DGV in one shot:

private void AddMethod5()
{
    dataGridView1.Columns.Clear();  // Remove the defined columns from the DGV

    DataTable dt = new DataTable();
    DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();
    for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
    {
        dt.Columns.Add("Column" + i.ToString(), typeof(String));
        dr["Column" + i.ToString()] = "RowCell" + i.ToString();
    }
    dt.Rows.Add(dr);
    dataGridView1.DataSource = dt;
}

At this point, I'm not truly in the spirit of what you originally proposed:

...adding a row to a DataGridView consisting of textboxes.

This is using the DGV as a viewing mechanism on a separate data source. As the comment indicates, it removes any column definitions in the DGV. But, it *is* yet another way to get a DGV to display data. And, of course, there are a lot of different ways to construct data sets/tables - from a database, from code, etc...

A lot of ways to skin the proverbial cat.

[ddanbe]

Let me clarify this a bit:
I have an unbound DataGridView in mind with predefined columns.
From another DGV(bound) with unknown amount of columns I do a number of calculations per column. These calculations then go in the second DGV in an added row.
During the process of doing this, this question popped up.

[ddanbe]

It is as in the saying: "All roads lead to Rome."
Solved.