How to assign class property as display data memeber in datagridview
- by KoolKabin
hi guys,
I am trying to display my data in datagridview. I created a class with different property and used its list as the datasource. it worked fine. but i got confused how to do that in case we have nested class.
My Classes are as follows:
class Category
property UIN as integer
property Name as string
end class
class item
property uin as integer
property name as string
property mycategory as category
end class
my data list as follows:
dim myDataList as list(of Item) = new List(of Item)
myDataList.Add(new Item(1,"item1",new category(1,"cat1")))
myDataList.Add(new Item(2,"item2",new category(1,"cat1")))
myDataList.Add(new Item(3,"item3",new category(1,"cat1")))
myDataList.Add(new Item(4,"item4",new category(2,"cat2")))
myDataList.Add(new Item(5,"item5",new category(2,"cat2")))
myDataList.Add(new Item(6,"item6",new category(2,"cat2")))
Now I binded the datagridview control like:
DGVMain.AutoGenerateColumns = False
DGVMain.ColumnCount = 3
DGVMain.Columns(0).DataPropertyName = "UIN"
DGVMain.Columns(0).HeaderText = "ID"
DGVMain.Columns(1).DataPropertyName = "Name"
DGVMain.Columns(1).HeaderText = "Name"
DGVMain.Columns(2).DataPropertyName = "" **'here i want my category name**
DGVMain.Columns(2).HeaderText = "category"
DGVMain.datasource = myDataList
DGVMain.refresh()
I have tried using mycategory.name but it didn't worked. What can be done to get expected result? Is there any better idea other than this to accomplish the same task?
