Sometimes you will want to display only some of the columns that are available in a DataGridView. For example, you might want to show an employee salary column to users with management credentials while hiding it from other users.

In the DataGridView control, the column's Visible property determines whether the column is displayed.

1. Choose Edit Columns from the control's smart tag.
2. Select a column from the Selected Columns list.
3. In the Column Properties grid, set the Visible property to false.