In this article, I will explore an answer to two questions. How is it possible that an array provides its contained objects to the PropertyGrid as if they were properties? Furthermore, the names of the objects contained in the array are displayed with its sequence numbers ( [0],[1],...). The second question is how to customize so that more meaningful data is displayed instead of sequence numbers? We will also develop a solution.
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using System;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Threading;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data;
using System.Globalization;
namespace PropertyGridSample
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for Form1.
/// </summary>
public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form
{
Organization organization;
internal System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid PropertyGrid1;
private System.Windows.Forms.Label label1;
/// <summary>
/// Required designer variable.
/// </summary>
private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null;
public Form1()
{
//
// Required for Windows Form Designer support
//
InitializeComponent();
organization = new Organization();
PropertyGrid1.SelectedObject = organization;
}
/// <summary>
/// Clean up any resources being used.
/// </summary>
protected override void Dispose( bool disposing )
{
if( disposing )
{
if (components != null)
{
components.Dispose();
}
}
base.Dispose( disposing );
}
#region Windows Form Designer generated code
/// <summary>
/// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
/// the contents of this method with the code editor.
/// </summary>
private void InitializeComponent()
{
this.PropertyGrid1 = new System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid();
this.label1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
this.SuspendLayout();
//
// PropertyGrid1
//
this.PropertyGrid1.Anchor = (((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Top | System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom)
| System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left)
| System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Right);
this.PropertyGrid1.CommandsVisibleIfAvailable = true;
this.PropertyGrid1.LargeButtons = false;
this.PropertyGrid1.LineColor = System.Drawing.SystemColors.ScrollBar;
this.PropertyGrid1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 32);
this.PropertyGrid1.Name = "PropertyGrid1";
this.PropertyGrid1.PropertySort = System.Windows.Forms.PropertySort.Categorized;
this.PropertyGrid1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(408, 226);
this.PropertyGrid1.TabIndex = 1;
this.PropertyGrid1.Text = "PropertyGrid1";
this.PropertyGrid1.ViewBackColor = System.Drawing.SystemColors.Window;
this.PropertyGrid1.ViewForeColor = System.Drawing.SystemColors.WindowText;
//
// label1
//
this.label1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(8, 8);
this.label1.Name = "label1";
this.label1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(232, 16);
this.label1.TabIndex = 2;
this.label1.Text = "Employee data of company ABC";
//
// Form1
//
this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(6, 15);
this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(408, 254);
this.Controls.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.Control[] {
this.label1,
this.PropertyGrid1});
this.Name = "Form1";
this.Text = "Customizing Collections in Property Grid Demo";
this.ResumeLayout(false);
}
#endregion
/// <summary>
/// The main entry point for the application.
/// </summary>
[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
Application.Run(new Form1());
}
}
}
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