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Hi, I am using Grid Validating event to save/discard changes to my grid.EnableEdit=false; for my grid. The problem is I am able to get away with this Validating event for almost all the cases to save/discard chnages except for when the user clicks on the menus. Is there an event for such a case to make my grid validate itself... Thanks!

In your menu handlers, you can call the form''s Validate method to force the last active control to validate itself.

Yes, that works. But if the grid validation fails during the menu selection/validation, I want to take the user back to the grid ( and kind of force the user to enter the right values ) and not execute the rest of the menu handler.. In my grid''s validation, I do set e.Cancel = true; and I tried to check this.Validate == false to bail in the menu handler, but that did not seem to work..So the question is how do I communicate to the caller ( Validate() in menu handler ) that the last active control''s Validation has failed? thanks!

Are you using CurrentCellValidating to do your validaing in the grid? The code below seemed to work for me. CopyPaste_907.zip

Private Sub MenuItem2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MenuItem2.Click
        If Not Me.Validate() Then
            Me.GridControl1.Focus()
            Return
        End If
        ''do your menu stuff
        MessageBox.Show("Menu stuff")
End Sub

Private Sub GridControl1_CurrentCellValidating(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles GridControl1.CurrentCellValidating
        Dim s As String = Me.GridControl1.CurrentCell.Renderer.ControlText
        Dim d As Double
        If Double.TryParse(s, Globalization.NumberStyles.Number, Nothing, d) Then
            If d > 100 Then
                e.Cancel = True
                Me.GridControl1.CurrentCell.ErrorMessage = "must be less than 100"
            End If
        End If
End Sub

Hi Clay, That does not help, because: 1) Minor point: I am using c# not VB 2) using Databound grid. 3) not using CurrentCellValidating, instead using grid.validating event ( long story ), which is getting called from this.Validate() in menu handler. Just can''t propagate the validation failed back to menu handler. 4) most importantly, my menu is on 1 form and the grid is on another form. When I set e.Cancel in the grid.Validating event, I want this.validate() in the menu handler on the other form to return false. Thanks!

One possible solution is to add a static bool gridOK member to the grid''s form. Handle the grid''s CurrenctCellMoved event and set gridOK = true. In your validate code, set gridOK = false if the validation fails. You should then be able to check this static member in the menu handler on the other form.

Yes. But should''nt this.Validate() return false when my grid.Validating() sets e.Cancel = true?

Another thought.... Are you calling Form.Validate on the grid''s parent form or on the menu''s parent form?

Calling Validate on Menu''s Parent form which in turn calls grid''s validate

I cannot get it to work calling the menu''s form''s Validate, but it does seem to work in this sample if I call the grid''s form''s Validate. DataGridTicks_4463.zip