Question

The situation is this:

I have a Form which contains a DataGridView. That DataGridView is binded to an object BindingSource.
The objects binded have a Property which is an enum.

What I want to do is to put a column in the DataGridView but instead of showing the number of the enum, I want to map it to a String

Is there an easy way of doing this?

I am thinking of adding another Property to the model that returns the String I want to show, but I would like to avoid that if possible.

Edit:

The enum is this:

public enum FilterClass
{
    TypeAFilter = 1,
    TypeBFilter = 2,
    TypeCFilter = 3
};

I am quite new to the C# world, so maybe I am doing something completely wrong

Answer 1

I would create a new field in the BusinessObject class which represents the string representation of an enum and bind the DataGridView’s Column to this property. Does this approach meet your requirements?

public string EnumString {
  get { 
    FilterClass fClass = this.FilterClass;
    return fClasss.ToString();
  }
}