There are situation when you would like to show only some of the columns that are available in a DataGridView on your form. E.g. a DataGridView could display contact information to system administrators, but for every other user else these information would be hidden.
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How to hide a column programmatically
The Visible property of the column in the DataGridView control determines if the column can be displayed or not.
In order to hide a column in the designer following the steps below:
1) Select Edit Columns from the control's smart tag
2) Choose a column from the Selected Columns list
3) Configure the Visible property to have value "false" in the "Column Properties" grid
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