Add ViewLink to C# DataGridView

The DataGridView control and its related classes are designed to be a flexible, extensible system for displaying and editing tabular data. The DataGridView control provides TextBox, CheckBox, Image, Button, ComboBox and Link columns with the corresponding cell types. We can add hyperlink in the column of a DataGridView , the column type contains cells of type DataGridViewLinkCell and renders the text in the cell to look like a hyperlink. The following C# program shows how to add a hyperlink in a column of DataGridView control.

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using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Drawing;

namespace WindowsApplication1
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            dataGridView1.ColumnCount = 3;
            dataGridView1.Columns[0].Name = "Product ID";
            dataGridView1.Columns[1].Name = "Product Name";
            dataGridView1.Columns[2].Name = "Product Price";

            string[] row = new string[] { "1", "Product 1", "1000" };
            dataGridView1.Rows.Add(row);
            row = new string[] { "2", "Product 2", "2000" };
            dataGridView1.Rows.Add(row);
            row = new string[] { "3", "Product 3", "3000" };
            dataGridView1.Rows.Add(row);
            row = new string[] { "4", "Product 4", "4000" };
            dataGridView1.Rows.Add(row);

            DataGridViewLinkColumn lnk = new DataGridViewLinkColumn();
            dataGridView1.Columns.Add(lnk);
            lnk.HeaderText = "Link Data";
            lnk.Name = "Http://csharp.net-informations.com";
            lnk.Text = "Http://csharp.net-informations.com";
            lnk.UseColumnTextForLinkValue = true;

        }
    }
}