Home/ Questions/Q 344407
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-12T10:59:16+00:00

I’ve started hacking together a little application for managing a list of addresses and

  • 0

I’ve started hacking together a little application for managing a list of addresses and contacts. I fancied going the way of using XmlSerialization on custom objects, but have come up against a first hurdle in that I can’t sort a DataGridView on a custom object collection without implementing BindingList.

Which has got me wondering whether custom objects is the way to go or not.

Question: Given that I’d like to have the data in one xml file, and that I’d like to display in a DataGridView, which is the best route to go – DataSet, custom objects, or are there others I’m not aware of? And if that’s not enough constraints, what might be other deciding factors?

(If there is a good reason for going WPF, please let me know)

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Well here’s what I ended up doing:

    Custom classes for addressbook, contacts, people – using XmlSerialization attributes for saving/loading from xml.

    Inherit from ObservableCollection to create SortableObservableCollection (pinched from here)

    Bind the Address book contacts directly to a ListView in WPF – the main reason why is that in WPF filtering is almost free, and binding is so much simpler (two way binding for edition as well).

    • 0