Question

I’m trying to bind a DataGridView to a MembershipUserCollection but the grid refused to show any users even though there are records in the database.

according to my research on the internet I did the following:

MembershipUserCollection x = Membership.GetAllUsers();

gvUsers.DataSource = x;

Appreciate your Help.

Answer 1

The problem is that the object you bind to needs to implement one of these interfaces

• IList
• IListSource
• IBindingList
• IBindingView

Whereas MembershipUserCollection only implements ICollection.

One solution would be to create a wrapper/adapter which implements one of these interfaces.

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This might work, can’t test it atm.

var collection = Membership.GetAllUsers();
var bindingList = new BindingList<MemberShipUser>();

// If it's only meant for display
bindingList.AllowNew = false;
bindingList.AllowRemove = false;
bindingList.AllowEdit = false;

foreach (MemberShipUser member in collection)
{
    bindingList.Add(member);
}