"aualias" <aualias@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:O6O0xKlhFHA.2152@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hi All,
>
> I have a Public Class PurchaseOrder which contains a POItemCollection
> Public Class POItemCollection
> Implements IList, IEnumerable
>
> The PO ItemCollection contains an ArrayList of POItem which have the
> following properties
> InventoryID, Description and Price
>
> I have a DataGrid with the DataSource set to the POItemCollection. When I
> create the DataGridTableStyle, I create a DataGridTextBoxColumn which uses
> the property names (InventoryID, Description and Price) for the
> MappingName for each column.
>
> None of the formatting takes. I get the correct values in the DataGrid,
> but with the default formatting.
>
> What do I have to do to my POItemCollection so that I can use it for a
> DataSource for a DataGrid? I thought that I could just use the properties
> of the object contained in my IList (the POItemCollection).
>
> My guess is that there is a problem because the IList.Item returns an
> object, not a POItem. What do I have to implement to use a
> DataGridTextBoxColumn MappingName?
>
> Thanks.
>
> David
>
>
>