How to add checkbox and label in the same datagridview cell?

I don't believe this is possible with CheckBoxCell.

Here is an implementation that will subclass the checkbox column and do some custom painting for the label to be painted. It is possible to distribute this in a variety of ways, such as suggesting an anchor for the label text (currently this requires the label text to be set directly). My code is heavily dependent on this forum post .

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing;

public class MyDGVCheckBoxColumn : DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn
{
    private string label;

    public string Label
    {
        get
        {
            return label;
        }
        set
        {
            label = value;
        }
    }

    public override DataGridViewCell CellTemplate
    {
        get
        {
            return new MyDGVCheckBoxCell();
        }
    }
}

public class MyDGVCheckBoxCell : DataGridViewCheckBoxCell
{
    private string label;

    public string Label
    {
        get
        {
            return label;
        }
        set
        {
            label = value;
        }

    }

    protected override void Paint(Graphics graphics, Rectangle clipBounds, Rectangle cellBounds, int rowIndex, DataGridViewElementStates elementState, object value, object formattedValue, string errorText, DataGridViewCellStyle cellStyle, DataGridViewAdvancedBorderStyle advancedBorderStyle, DataGridViewPaintParts paintParts)
    {

        // the base Paint implementation paints the check box
        base.Paint(graphics, clipBounds, cellBounds, rowIndex, elementState, value, formattedValue, errorText, cellStyle, advancedBorderStyle, paintParts);

        // Get the check box bounds: they are the content bounds
        Rectangle contentBounds = this.GetContentBounds(rowIndex);

        // Compute the location where we want to paint the string.
        Point stringLocation = new Point();

        // Compute the Y.
        // NOTE: the current logic does not take into account padding.
        stringLocation.Y = cellBounds.Y + 2;


        // Compute the X.
        // Content bounds are computed relative to the cell bounds
        // - not relative to the DataGridView control.
        stringLocation.X = cellBounds.X + contentBounds.Right + 2;


        // Paint the string.
        if (this.Label == null)
        {
            MyDGVCheckBoxColumn col = (MyDGVCheckBoxColumn)this.OwningColumn;
            this.label = col.Label;
        }

        graphics.DrawString(
        this.Label, Control.DefaultFont, System.Drawing.Brushes.Red, stringLocation);

    }

}

      

        
        
        
      

    

Here is some code showing the usage:

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    MyDGVCheckBoxColumn col = new MyDGVCheckBoxColumn();
    col.Label = "hippo";
    col.DefaultCellStyle.Alignment = DataGridViewContentAlignment.MiddleLeft;
    this.dataGridView1.Columns.Add(col);
    this.dataGridView1.RowCount = 5;

    foreach (DataGridViewRow row in this.dataGridView1.Rows)
    {
        if (row.Index % 2 == 0)
        {
            ((MyDGVCheckBoxCell)row.Cells[0]).Label = "kitten";
        }
    }
}