CartItemCollection to Datagrid..?

[matthewking]

Hi all,

Say I had a CartItem class which represented a single cart item, and a CartItemCollection class which contains (not sure if this is how its done) a arraylist of CartItem objects..

How do I bind this data to a datagrid? create a datagrid in the CartItemCollection and return it? or is there a easier/standard way

MyDataGrid.DataSource = MyItemCollection.ToDataGrid(); for example ?

Thanks,
Matt.

 

[palbano]

Matt, have you read the DataGrid.DataSource documentation? Is there some specific question you have regarding the documentation?

If you have not read the documentation then it is possible that the answer to your question lies there.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...mwindowsformsdatagridclassdatasourcetopic.asp

Look at the Remarks section

-pete

 

[matthewking]

Palbano, Thanks for your reply. I know how to do it technically, but the CartItemCollection itself just contains instances of CartItem class, and I don't believe datagrid will automatically read the public variables of CartItem and print to the datagrid.

So if I had a method called "ToDataSet()" in the CartItemCollection which would loop through CartItems and populate a dataset, then return that I could use that to populate a datagrid.

I was just wondering if this is technically ok, IE not a bad idea, or if theres a far simpler method of getting the same result.

 

[chiph]

morefire -
Why not give it a try?

I haven't done it myself, but I suspect that all you'll have to do is override the ToString method in your CartItem class to properly format the data. (since ToString is exposed by the Object class, and every class inherits from Object, every class thus has a ToString method whether you provide your own implementation or not)

Chip H.


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[matthewking]

thanks chiph, I guess it wouldn't hurt to give it a go

 

[palbano]

>> I guess it wouldn't hurt to give it a go

[red]Better be careful![/red] With an attitude like that you will become an experienced programmer! Then you will have to answer questions on some online forum < barf >

Oh... _{never mind...}

-pete

 

[matthewking]

hehe