Generic IBindingListView Implementations

Question

Can anyone suggest a good implementation of a generic collection class that implements the IBindingListView & IBindingList interfaces and provides Filtering and Searching capabilities?

I see my current options as:

• Using a class that someone else has written and tested
• Inheriting from BindingList, and implementing the IBindingListView interfaces
• Write a custom collection from scratch, implementing IBindingListView and IBindingList.

Obviously, the first option is my preferred choice.

Thanking you.

Answer 1

A couple of solutions I can think of:

1. The SubSonic Project has a pretty nice implementation of BindlingList<T> which is open source. Although this might require using the entire SubSonic binary to use their implementation.

2. I enjoy using the classes from the Power Collections project. It is fairly simple to inherit from one of the base collections there and implement IBindingListView.

Answer 2

I used and built upon an implementation I found on and old MSDN forum post from a few years ago, but recently I searched around again and found a sourceforge project called BindingListView. It looks pretty nice, I just haven't pulled it in to replace my hacked version yet.

Answer 3

Here is the help for your method 2 and 3 Behind the Scenes: Implementing Filtering for Windows Forms Data Binding

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4af0c96d-61d5-4645-8961-b423318541b4&displaylang=en

Answer 4

@chris: what do you mean the originalListItems value is never set? It's set via the OriginalList property! Or do I miss something?