Databinding with a custom object to datagridview - Column Header Text

Question

Hi,

I have an list of objects (PrintJob) that I bind to a DataGridView. Here is a cut down version of the PrintJob object (Don't want to bore you completely!!):

public class PrintJob 
{
        private long pagesToPrint;
        public long PagesToPrint
        {
            get { return pagesToPrint; }
        }

        private long recipientRef;
        public long RecipientRef
        {
            get { return recipientRef; }
            set { recipientRef = value; }
        }
}

and I make a list of these objects and bind to the dataGridView like so:

dataGridView1.DataSource = uiModel.GetPrintJobs();

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all good so far?

Everything displays fine expcept the Column Headers - which show the exact same as the Propery name in my object i.e. "PagesToPrint" appears in column header, where ideally, I would want it to display "Pages To Print" in the header text.

How do I get the Column Header text to show something a bit more readable - I guess based on the property name.

Cheers.

Answer 1

 [DisplayName("Pages to print")]
 public long PagesToPrint {...}

etc (with using System.ComponentModel; at the top of the code file)

Answer 2

Yes you can use the designer with a bound data source. Just set the "DataPropertyName" property value of each column in the designer.

For example...for column 1 the "DataPropertyName" property value would be "PagesToPrint", whilst the "HeaderText" property would be the actual text ("Pages to Print"?) you want displayed as the column header.