DataGridViewColumn.DataPropertyName Property
- by Captain Comic
Hi
I have a DataGridView control and I want to populate it with data.
I use DataSource property
// dgvDealAsset is DataGridView
private void DealAssetListControl_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
dgvDealAssets.AutoGenerateColumns = false;
dgvDealAssets.DataSource = DealAssetList.Instance.Values.ToList();
}
Now problem number one. The class of my collection does not contain only simple types that I can map to columns using DataPropertyName. This is the class that is contained in collection.
class MyClass
{
public String Name;
MyOtherClass otherclass;
}
class MyOtherClass
{
public String Name;
}
Now I am binding properties of MyClass to columns
col1.DataPropertyName = "Name" // Ok
col2.DataPropertyName = "otherclass" // Not OK - I will have empty cell
The problem is that I want to display otherclass.Name field. But if I try to write
col2.DataPropertyName = "otherclass.Name"
I get empty cell.
I tried to manually set the column
private void DealAssetListControl_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
dgvDealAssets.AutoGenerateColumns = false;
dgvDealAssets.DataSource = DealAssetList.Instance.Values.ToList();
// iterate through rows and set the column manually
foreach (DataGridViewRow row in dgvDealAssets.Rows)
{
row.Cells["Column2"].Value = ((DealAsset)row.DataBoundItem).otherclass.Name;
}
But this foreach cycle takes about minute to complete (2k elements). How to solve this problem?
