On Feb 13, 2:39 pm, brianlanning <brianlann...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Suppose I have an object that looks like this:
>
> public class thing
> private mOne as string
> private mTwo as string
> private mThree as string
> private mFour as string
>
> public property one as string
> bla
> end property
>
> (and so on, public properties for the others)
>
> end class
>
> then I make a List(of Thing) and add a bunch of instances
>
> then I bind the list to a datagridview
>
> It's not possible for me to make the properties private
>
> My problem is that I only want to display properties One and Two in
> the grid view. I want Three and Four around to help out with sorting
> and data type conversion, but I don't want to display them in the
> grid. Currently, I just remove the columns programmatically. But
> what I really want is to decorate the properties with attributes that
> affect which properties appear in the grid. Does such an attribute
> exist?
>
> brian

"brianlanning" <brianlanning@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Feb 13, 2:39 pm, brianlanning <brianlann...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Suppose I have an object that looks like this:
>>
>> public class thing
>> private mOne as string
>> private mTwo as string
>> private mThree as string
>> private mFour as string
>>
>> public property one as string
>> bla
>> end property
>>
>> (and so on, public properties for the others)
>>
>> end class
>>
>> then I make a List(of Thing) and add a bunch of instances
>>
>> then I bind the list to a datagridview
>>
>> It's not possible for me to make the properties private
>>
>> My problem is that I only want to display properties One and Two in
>> the grid view. I want Three and Four around to help out with sorting
>> and data type conversion, but I don't want to display them in the
>> grid. Currently, I just remove the columns programmatically. But
>> what I really want is to decorate the properties with attributes that
>> affect which properties appear in the grid. Does such an attribute
>> exist?
>>
>> brian
>
>
>
> Looks like the DataGridView.CellFormatting event was made for this.
> Works great.
>
> brian