In order to change them, you have to overwrite the entire Font property by creating a new Font object and specifying its properties when you instantiate it. So for example:

DataGridViewRow row = new DataGridViewRow();
row.DefaultCellStyle.Font = new Font (
“Arial”, // Family
9, // Size
FontStyle.Bold // Style
);

..but what if you just want to alter one of these properties, and preserve whatever is already set for the others?

Well if you’re creating a new row, you can’t reference the properties of the row itself (because it doesn’t exist yet) but you can refer to the corresponding settings for the row’s parent DataGridView. So lets say we just want to change the row to bold:

DataGridView data_grid = new DataGridView();
DataGridViewRow row = new DataGridViewRow();
row.DefaultCellStyle.Font = new Font(
data_grid.DefaultCellStyle.Font.FontFamily,
data_grid.DefaultCellStyle.Font.Size,
FontStyle.Bold
);

So the default settings for font family and size are preserved, but the bold setting is changed.

I had a quick poke around last night and to be honest most of the improvements have little significance to me at this point, although I am quite interested in LINQ. I’m holding off on moving across just at the moment because when you open an existing solution in the new version it renders it incompatible with the old version, and I don’t have time just at the moment to upgrade all my installations. However, it is possible to run both the old and new versions on the same machine.