"David H." <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to bind an arraylist to a datagrid web control.
>
> The arraylist contains "mystates" objects with properties named "state"
and "abbreviation."
>
> I can set the grid's datasource to be the arraylist, but I am having

>
> <asp:boundcolumn datafield="state" />
>
> Is there an easy way around this?
>
> Thanks!
> - David H.

"David H." <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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"Teemu Keiski" <joteke@aspalliance.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> how are you exactly trying to do that. In my test I had a Datagrid
>
> <asp:DataGrid id="DataGrid1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" >
> <Columns>
> <asp:BoundColumn DataField="State" />
> </Columns>
> </asp:DataGrid>
>
> I had a class MyState:
>
> Public Class MyState
> Private _abbreviation As String
> Private _State As String
> Public Sub New(ByVal abbreviation As String, ByVal state As String)
> _abbreviation = abbreviation
> _State = state
> End Sub
> Public ReadOnly Property Abbreviation() As String
> Get
> Return _abbreviation
> End Get
> End Property
> Public ReadOnly Property State() As String
> Get
> Return _State
> End Get
> End Property
> End Class
>
> which was used with the grid:
>
> Dim arrList As New ArrayList
> arrList.Add(New MyState("A1", "1"))
> arrList.Add(New MyState("A2", "2"))
> arrList.Add(New MyState("A3", "3"))
> DataGrid1.DataSource = arrList
> DataGrid1.DataBind()
>
> And it worked just fine.
>
> Are you perhaps using C#? Have you make sure that it's not anything
related
> just to case-sensitivity, if you are?
>
> --
> Teemu Keiski
> MCP, Microsoft MVP (ASP.NET), AspInsiders member
> ASP.NET Forum Moderator, AspAlliance Columnist
>
>
>
>
> "David H." <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:47364EEA-846E-4119-A683-DB3566231E18@microsoft.com...
> I'm trying to bind an arraylist to a datagrid web control.
>
> The arraylist contains "mystates" objects with properties named "state"
and
> "abbreviation."
>
> I can set the grid's datasource to be the arraylist, but I am having
trouble
> referencing the properties of each arraylist item by their name. For
> example, the grid doesn't like:
>
> <asp:boundcolumn datafield="state" />
>
> Is there an easy way around this?
>
> Thanks!
> - David H.
>
>