Question

I have created two classes:

public class Params : List<Param> {  }  public class Param {     public enum enType     {         Integer,         Double,         String,         DateTime     }      private string sName_m;     public string Name     {         get { return sName_m; }         set { sName_m = value; }     }      private string sValue_m;     public string Value     {         get { return sValue_m; }         set { sValue_m = value; }     }      private enType eType_m;     public enType Type     {         get { return eType_m; }         set { eType_m = value; }     } } 

Now I want to be able to show the Params in a Grid type control on a windows application, so I dragged a DataGridView on to my form, and chose a datasouce by picking Other Data Sources -> Project Data Source, and then choosing my Params Class (frmMain+Params).

Now when I run the app, I can add/delete/edit records and the grid shows the three columns. What I’d like to be able to do is have the Type column be a drop down letting my pick values in the enumeration. Currently, I have to type a string that has to match the enumeration. Possible?

Answer 1

I was never able to get the automatic data-binding to set up a DataGridViewComboBoxCell / DataGridViewComboBoxColumn properly (nor the CheckBox ones), so I resorted to setting AutoGenerateColumns to false and manually setting up the columns.