How to dynamically set which properties get bound to a DataGridView?

Question

My DataGridView needs to support a number of types and these types may have any number of public properties, not all of which I want to display.

Can anyone suggest a way to dynamically customise a DataGridView's columns when binding a class a datasource? Is there an attribute that will tell a control whether to use a property as a column for example?

Advice appreciated.

Answer 1

By default (with auto column generation enabled), it will simply obtain (via ComponentModel) the [Browsable(true)] properties, (or those that omit this attribute).

If this is the only use of binding for this data, you could add [Browsable(false)] to the properties you don't want to show. Note that this will also prevent regular data-binding (i.e. TextBox, PropertyGrid, etc) to those properties.

In reality, I expect it would be better to create your own attribute, and use that to find the properties you want to display via reflection (and build the columns yourself).