In some cases, it might be a bad idea to first add the column to the DataGridView and then hide it. I for example have a class that has an NHibernate proxy for an Image property for company logos. If I accessed that property (e.g. by calling its ToString method to show that in a … Read more
What you want to use is this property: dt.Columns[0].DataType The DataType property will set to one of the following: Boolean Byte Char DateTime Decimal Double Int16 Int32 Int64 SByte Single String TimeSpan UInt16 UInt32 UInt64 DataColumn.DataType Property MSDN Reference
You should be able to achieve this by setting the WrapMode of the DefaultCellStyle of your DataGridViewTextBoxColumn to true.
this.dataGridView1.Columns[“CustomerName”].DefaultCellStyle.Alignment = DataGridViewContentAlignment.MiddleRight;