C# Design questions displaying data on screen

DataSource will make every property of the array a column . I took the existing string[][] and performend the following linq on it:

dataGridView1.DataSource = (from arr in test 
select new 
{ 
   Data = arr[0], Dog = arr[1] +
}
).ToArray();

The result was a datagridview with 2 columns (Data and Dog) with the respective values originating from the string[][].

Regarding my second question - I will open a new thread for that.

You can always feel in an instance of DataGridView with data in any form you want, cell by cell. If you need to fill in the jagged array, by concern would be: jagged array does not assume that there is a column-to-column one-to-one correspondence of the element of the inner array, so it's not clear what's the point of arranging the data in a grid view, where this correspondence is visually pronounced: the user reasonably tends to think that the column represents identical attributes of different data element arranges horizontally. Besides, the jagged nature of the array assumes that you will have any number of empty cells anyway.

If you still want to deal with your data as is and thing that my concerns are not important to you (well, I still don't know your goals), and you don't want to populate the control with data on cell-to-cell basis, one of the possible ideas is to fill in the arrays with null values to have an NxM matrix of data. Then you could simply bind your data as the data source with the control.

But then, a jagged array is not suitable structure anyway, mostly because the arrays don't allow adding elements. You can bind the data like list of lists. Even though you can populate list of list using your array as a data source, it's unlikely the best solution. It would be much better if you scribe the Web sites into an list of lists in first place. I hope it's easy for you.

—SA