How to make a cell or row or column non-editable without protecting the worksheet in WinForms Spreadsheet (SfSpreadsheet)?

Disable the editing of any cell

WinForms Spreadsheet allows you to disable the editing of any cell, row and column without protecting the worksheet by Cancel the CurrentCellBeginEdit event of SpreadsheetGrid.

C#

Spreadsheet.ActiveGrid.CurrentCellBeginEdit += ActiveGrid_CurrentCellBeginEdit;
void ActiveGrid_CurrentCellBeginEdit(object sender, CurrentCellBeginEditEventArgs args)
{
    if (args.RowcolumnIndex.RowIndex == 5 && args.RowcolumnIndex.ColumnIndex == 5)
        args.Cancel = true;
}

Samples:

WPF

WinRT

WinForms

UWP

Conclusion

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