Question

I am pulling data from a sql server and putting it into a grid using c#. When the data displays on the grid, it is showing up as the guid rather than the actual name. How do I get the name to show and not the uniqe identifier. Any ideas? Thanks.

Here is some of the code:

public InventoryWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        if (dgDataView != null)
        {
            SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(connString);
            SqlDataAdapter adpt = new SqlDataAdapter("select * from Item", con);
            DataSet ds = new DataSet();
            adpt.Fill(ds, "Item");
            dgDataView.DataContext = ds;
            //dgDataView.DataMember = "Item";
            showdata();
        }

    }

    private void showdata()
    {
        String connString = "server=server;database=database;user=user;password=password";

        SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(connString);
        con.Open();
        SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("select * from Item", con);
        SqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
        DataTable dt = new DataTable();
        dt.Load(dr);
        dgDataView.DataContext = dt;
        con.Close();
    }

Answer 1

I figured this out, I just wrote my own query to display certain columns instead of automatically showing all of them.