If you want to continue using `AutoGenerateColumns = True` and `DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn`, you can modify the appearance and behavior to look and act like a read only field.

Assuming you wanted to target all CheckBoxCells, you can disable them and change their appearance like this:



    For Each row In DataGridView1.Rows.Cast(Of DataGridViewRow)()
        For Each cell In row.Cells.OfType(Of DataGridViewCheckBoxCell)()
            cell.ReadOnly = True
            cell.FlatStyle = FlatStyle.Flat
            cell.Style.ForeColor = Color.DarkSlateGray
        Next
    Next

I have a lot of read-only data, and I don't like the clickable look and feel of `DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn`s  which are unfortunately the default type for rendering Boolean data.

Is there any way, either before or after using `AutoGenerateColumns` of a `DataGridView` that I can force it to generate `DataGridViewTextBoxColumns` that would just print `TRUE` or `FALSE` instead of `DataGridViewCheckBoxColumns`?

![Sample of way Data currently is returned][screenshot]

If it is easier to address this problem on the `DataTable` before setting it as the `DataSource`, that would be fine too.

  [screenshot]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/BShxM.png
