winforms - How to get ErrorText to display -


i making new datagridview cells can edited. have cellvalidating event handler, in set errortext of row , cell, no text or icon showing anywhere in window.

i have looked , followed many other issues this, nobody else's solution has worked me yet

  • made sure showcellerrors & showrowerrors = true
  • set dgv.rowtemplate.height > 19
  • made sure dgv.autosizerowsmode not set anything
  • set showtooltips = false
  • even tried not doing e.cancel = true in cellvalidating handler

so else there might block row and/or cell errortext appearing on screen?