Question

I have a DataGridView, whose DataSource I am setting to a List<T>. T in this case is a class with a property called Foo, whose header I want to show as Foo bar.

If it was a datatable, I could just change the query:

select Foo as [Foo bar] from Baz 

But with something like this, where I’m setting the DataGridView’s DataSource to a List<Baz>:

public class Baz {    public string Foo { get; set; } } 

I can’t rename ‘Foo‘ to ‘Foo bar‘ because it contains spaces. Do I have to rename the DataGridViewColumn manually?

The most awesome thing would be if I could use class decorators, something like this:

public class Baz {    [DataGridViewColumnTitle('Foo bar')]    public string Foo { get; set; } } 

But I as far as I can see, nothing like that exists in the standard library.

What’s my best option?

Answer 1

[DisplayName('Foo bar')] 

(in the System.ComponentModel namespace; MSDN)