Question

I’m binding a query to a WinForms DataGridView. I want the column headers to have spaces when needed. For example, I would want a column header to be First Name instead of FirstName.

How do you create your own custom column names in LINQ?

For example:

Dim query = From u In db.Users _             Select u.FirstName AS 'First Name' 

Answer 1

I solved my own problem but all of your answers were very helpful and pointed me in the right direction.

In my LINQ query, if a column name had more than one word I would separate the words with an underscore:

Dim query = From u In Users _             Select First_Name = u.FirstName 

Then, within the Paint method of the DataGridView, I replaced all underscores within the header with a space:

Private Sub DataGridView1_Paint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles DataGridView1.Paint     For Each c As DataGridViewColumn In DataGridView1.Columns         c.HeaderText = c.HeaderText.Replace('_', ' ')     Next End Sub