Turning a collection into a datagrid

Question

So I have a collection that I have in a listbox right now, which displays each item in the collection. I want to turn the listbox into a gridview, so I can add checkboxes and other drop downs. I am unable to find a tutorial that explains how to do this.

For the example my collection has 2 items, each item has multiple columns.

• [0] 747 Jet
  • [0] Passenger amount: 417
  • [1] First Flight: 1967
• [0] A380
  • [0] Passenger amount: 853
  • [1] First Flight: 2005

Right now my listbox uses this code

foreach (AMAPnr.Airplane airElement in AMAPnr.Airplanes)
{
    lstPlanes.Items.Add(
        "PassengerAmount: " + airElement.Passenger + " First Flight:" +
         airElement.FirstFlight.ToString());
}

How would i go about changing this into a gridview?

Answer 1

Update: The OP has clarified that they chose the wrong tags and this was actually for WinForms.

If you add a DataGridView to your form, and then put the following code in your forms codebehind, it works a treat:

private class Airplane
{
    public string AirplaneName { get; set; }
    public int PassengerAmt { get; set; }
    public int FirstFlight { get; set; }
}

public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    var planes = new List<Airplane>();
    planes.Add(new Airplane() { AirplaneName = "747 Jet", PassengerAmt = 417, FirstFlight = 1967 });

    dataGridView1.DataSource = planes;

}

I've used a custom Airplane class to show this example a I don't know precisely how your code's structured and it was easier for me that way. You should be able to plug in your custom datatype relatively easily.

Answer 2

    public IEnumerable<AMAPnr.Airplane> getItems(Planes)
    {
        foreach (AMAPnr.Airplane airElement in Planes)
        {
            yield return airElement;
        }
        yield break;
    }

Then just do myDataGrid.DataSource = getItems(AMAPnr.Airplanes);

You can also just do myDataGrid.DataSource = lstPlanes;