# Disable Editing
FlexGrid for WinForms provides support to disable editing at grid, row and column level. You can also disable editing of a cell. Know more about disabling here.
## Content
**FlexGrid**, by default, allows end-user to edit the cell values at runtime. However, with FlexGrid, you can easily manage how much control you want to give to the end-users using various properties provided by the FlexGrid.
## Disable Grid Editing
To disable editing of the whole WinForms FlexGrid, you need to set AllowEditing property of the C1FlexGrid class to **false** as shown in the code below.
```csharp
// Disable grid editing
c1FlexGrid1.AllowEditing = false;
```
```vbnet
' Disable grid editing
c1FlexGrid1.AllowEditing = False
```
## Disable Row or Column Editing
To disable the editing of a particular row or column of the WinForms FlexGrid, you can set the **AllowEditing** property of Row or Column object to **false** as shown in the code below.
```csharp
// Disable editing of third row
c1FlexGrid1.Rows[3].AllowEditing = false;
// Disable editing of third column
c1FlexGrid1.Cols[3].AllowEditing = false;
```
```vbnet
' Disable editing of third row
c1FlexGrid1.Rows(3).AllowEditing = False
' Disable editing of third column
c1FlexGrid1.Cols(3).AllowEditing = False
```
## Disable Cell Editing
To disable editing of a particular cell, you can use the **BeforeEdit** event and set the **Cancel** parameter for that particular cell to **true**.
```csharp
// Disable cell editing
private void C1FlexGrid1_BeforeEdit(object sender, RowColEventArgs e)
{
if ((e.Col == 4) && (e.Row == 2))
{
e.Cancel = true;
}
}
```
```vbnet
' Disable cell editing
Private Sub C1FlexGrid1_BeforeEdit(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As RowColEventArgs)
If e.Col = 4 AndAlso e.Row = 2 Then
e.Cancel = True
End If
End Sub
```