Keeping GridView Column Width the Same - asp.net

Question

I am populating an ASP.NET GridView manually via C# code and have paging turned on. When a user goes from one page to another the column widths adjust accordingly to what is on the screen. I would like the GridView columns to remain the same no matter which page the user is on (preferably each column is set to the largest character length for its particular column). Can someone suggest the best course of action to accomplish this. Here is how I am populating the GridView
private void BindData(string sortExpression, string sortDirection)
{
db_set_connection_string.set_db_connnection_string(configuration_manager.GetConfigValue("DBSTRING.1"));
db_set_connection_string.set_individual_global_variables(configuration_manager.GetConfigValue("DBSTRING.1"));
sSQLResults = db_connector_mysql.execute_query_with_results_returned("SELECT * From city", false);
//Dynamically create columns
foreach (DataColumn column in sSQLResults.Columns)
{
//So we aren't getting duplicates, we need to check to see if it exists first
if (DoesColumnExistInGridView(column.ColumnName) == false)
{
BoundField nameColumn = new BoundField();
nameColumn.DataField = column.ColumnName;
nameColumn.HeaderText = column.ColumnName;
nameColumn.SortExpression = column.ColumnName;
GridView1.Columns.Add(nameColumn);
}
}
this.GridView1.DataSource = sSQLResults;
if (sortExpression != null)
{
sSQLResults.DefaultView.Sort = sortExpression + " " + sortDirection;
}
this.GridView1.DataBind();
}

Answer 1

There are two ways you can do this. Define width at the time of adding columns dynamically.
//Dynamically create columns
foreach (DataColumn column in sSQLResults.Columns)
{
//So we aren't getting duplicates, we need to check to see if it exists first
if (DoesColumnExistInGridView(column.ColumnName) == false)
{
BoundField nameColumn = new BoundField();
nameColumn.DataField = column.ColumnName;
nameColumn.HeaderText = column.ColumnName;
nameColumn.SortExpression = column.ColumnName;
nameColumn.Width=1;
GridView1.Columns.Add(nameColumn);
}
}
or you can do that in Gird View row data bind event
protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e){
e.Rows.Cell[1].width=1;}