How to customize cell styles in VIBlend DataGridView for WinForms

Each cell within the VIBlend WinForms DataGridView control can have its own style. A cell style can modify properties like text format, background color, foreground color, border color, and font. In most cases multiple cells will share particular style characteristics. To customize a cell style, start by creating a new instance of the GridCellStyle class.

GridCellStyle cellStyle = new GridCellStyle();

The next step is to set the appropriate values for each Style propoperty:

FillStyle cellFillStyle = new FillStyleGradientEx(Color.Aqua, Color.Aqua, Color.Aqua, Color.Aqua,
90, 0.7f, 0.7f);

cellStyle.TextColor = Color.Black;
cellStyle.TextColorSelected = Color.Black;
cellStyle.Font = this.Font;
cellStyle.FillStyle = cellFillStyle;
cellStyle.FillStyleSelected = cellFillStyle;
cellStyle.BorderColorSelected = Color.Transparent;
cellStyle.BorderColor = Color.Transparent;

 Finally, apply the style to one or more grid cells:

HierarchyItem rowItem = this.Grid1.RowsHierarchy.Items[1];
HierarchyItem colItem = this.Grid1.ColumnsHierarchy.Items[1];
this.Grid1.CellsArea.SetCellDrawStyle(rowItem, colItem, cellStyle); 

You can also apply a cell style to all grid cells in any row:

          HierarchyItem rowItem = this.Grid1.RowsHierarchy.Items[1];

rowItem.CellsStyle = cellStyle;

HierarchyItem colItem = this.Grid1.ColumnsHierarchy.Items[1];
colItem.CellsStyle = cellStyle;