Change DataGridView Columns Title with Database Using C#
In this article, I will show you how to change column title in DataGridView Columns, let’s follow the tutorial below
Step 1:
Create Project And Add Reference To C# WinForms Project. (visit the link to the first tutorial on how to add reference to our C# project)
How to connect MySQL Database to C# Tutorial and Source code
Step 2:
Open MySQL Workbench, right click and create schema (new database), give database name as “sampledb” and create table in database and give a name as “information”, then create columns id, emp_id, name, designation, username and password and then insert data into table.
visit the link below on the tutorial on how to insert record in mysql and c#
Insert or Save Data into MySQL Database using C#

Steps 3:
Back to windows form application and design forms like this (see image below)
Add DataGridView tools
- Dtuser

Code for form LOAD (Form1) events:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using MySql.Data.MySqlClient;
namespace changecolumnnamedtview
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
dtuser.DataSource = null;
MySqlConnection con = new MySqlConnection("datasource= localhost; database=sampledb;port=3306; username = root; password= db1234");
MySqlDataAdapter adapter = new MySqlDataAdapter("select emp_id'EMP_ID',name'NAME',designation'DESIGNATION',username'USERNAME',password'PASSWORD' from information", con);
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
adapter.Fill(dt);
dtuser.DataSource = dt;
con.Close();
}
}
}
Results:

Code Explanation:
This code explain on how to change column header of DataGridView Columns using MySQL query
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