Dynamically showing fields to a Dev Express Grid view on windows form

Question

In one of windows application in C# , I am using Dev Express Grid view control to bind some data and display it to user. I have custom business objects with properties defined for this purpose.Then I simple set the DataSource of the grid to the list of my custom business objects.

A while ago , there came a requirement which means that the columns to be displayed on to the grid will be dynamic. This means I cannot know at design time which fields I will need to display.

I was thinking of abandoning setting the DataSource and populating the grid manually by code. But I think this will cause many of the grid's features not to work properly, for example , grouping the data by drag n drop of fields to the header area etc. Is there any way to tell a grid at runtime to skip certain fields from a list of BO's when databinding to the grid ?

Answer 1

This is pretty simple, we do it all the time. You simply need to bind the grid to your datasource and it will do the rest for you.

Hiding fields is easy also, just set its VisibleIndex to -1

You could do something like this

C#

grid.FocusedView.Columns["Col1"].VisibleIndex = -1;

VB

grid.FocusedView.Columns("Col1").VisibleIndex = -1;