Hide columns in a DataGridView

Question

Let's say I have a table like so:

Friend
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Id int not null
FriendName nvarchar(50) not null
Phone nvarchar(50) null

If I bind my DataGridView control in a Windows Forms application to an ObjectQuery<Friend>/ObjectSet<Friend>/IList<Friend> returned from an ObjectContext like so:

MyFriendsGridView.DataSource = _context.Friends.ToList();

All the columns that are in the Friend table appear in the grid. Suppose I want the Id column not to show up in the grid, how do I do that?

Do I simply hide the column in the grid's properties by setting the column's visibility to false? Is there a more elegant solution?

Answer 1

Setting column's visible property to false is the elegant solution as far as I know.