I have a list that I have bound to a datagridview. I want the first column to be a fixed size. The data is bound to the dataGridView and I can't seem to find a way to access an individual colums properties. if I try myDatagridview.colums[0] I get an index out of bounds, since it says the columns count is 0.

private DataGridView setUpDataGrid(List<NVRlineVal> _NVRData)
    {
        //setup dataGridView
        DataGridView NVRDataGridView = new System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView();
        NVRDataGridView.ColumnHeadersHeightSizeMode =
            System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewColumnHeadersHeightSizeMode.AutoSize;
        NVRDataGridView.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;
        NVRDataGridView.AutoSizeColumnsMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode.Fill;


        NVRDataGridView.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(3, 3);
        NVRDataGridView.Name = "NVRDataGridView" + nvrIndex;
        NVRDataGridView.RowHeadersWidthSizeMode =
            System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewRowHeadersWidthSizeMode.AutoSizeToDisplayedHeaders;
        NVRDataGridView.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(380, 401);
        NVRDataGridView.TabIndex = 0;
        NVRDataGridView.DataSource = _NVRData;
        var test = NVRDataGridView.Columns;
        NVRDataGridView.DataMember = "devState";
        DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.None;


    }

Any ideas on how to have a fixed column width for only one of these columns, the rest will autosize?