Question

If you bind a DataGridview (winform) to a list of objects can you define which object property , a string, should be used for the column titles?

At the moment its using the properties names from the objects.

or is it possible to bind a separate datasource, another object, to the column headers for the purpose of defining these titles?

UDATE

Example

public string field_one{get;set;}

Shows up as “field_one” as the column header. I would like…

public string header_one{get;set;}
public string field_one{get;set;}

row.header_one="Friendly Header Title";
...........
List<row> rows = new List<row>();

So that the column header is “Friendly Header Title”

or to have a list of headers in a separate object, list of objects or other list based type.

example

class header...
{
...
 public string header_column_one{get;set;}
..
}

....

class row....
{
...
 public string field{get;set;}
..
}

…….
……..

header.header_column_one="Nice Friendly Header"

List<row> rows = new List<row>();

Is this possible?

Answer 1

If i’m reading your question right, you’re asking about setting the titles for the columns. DataGridViewColumn’s HeaderText is your ticket.

MSDN Search “DataGridViewColumn”

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridviewcolumn.aspx