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IEnumerable interface Messages   Related Types This message was discovered on microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp. Responses highlighted in red are from those people who are likely to be able to contribute good, authoratitive information to this discussion. They include Microsoft employees, MVP's and others who IMHO contribute well to these kinds of discussions. Post a new message to this list... Mark A class correctly implementing the IEnumerable interface can be bound to a DataGrid or similar. Let's say you have a class called Person, and it has fields like FirstName, LastName and DateOfBirth, which are exposed as public properties. You create a strongly typed collection class of Person objects that implements the IEnumerable interface. When you bind the collection class implementing IEnumeralbe to the DataGrid, what events/methods/properties/whatever allow the DataGrid to know that it should display the FirstName, LastName and DateOfBirth values from each Person object in the DataGrid? Thanks in advance. Mark Reply to this message...        Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] (VIP) Mark, In this case, the DataGrid is using reflection on each type to get the properties to display. However, you can control this. If you implement ITypedList on the list object (the IList interface is what indicates it can be bound to, not IEnumerable), then you can return the properties to be displayed through the implementation of GetItemProperties. You can even have the implementation return properties that don't exist on the object. If the individual object implements ICustomTypeDescriptor, then that object will be queried for properties and values. Hope this helps. -- - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] - Click here to reveal e-mail address "Mark" <Click here to reveal e-mail address> wrote in message news:%Click here to reveal e-mail address... [Original message clipped] Reply to this message...        Mark ** In this case, the DataGrid is using reflection on each type to get the properties to display. ** Does it go after just the public properties, or internal/protected too? You have way too much info packed away in that brain of your Nicholas. Thanks again. Mark "Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <Click here to reveal e-mail address> wrote in message news:Click here to reveal e-mail address... [Original message clipped] Reply to this message...        Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] (VIP) Mark, Just public properties. It wouldn't be playing too nicely if it just disregarded the encapsulation that you determined for your class and exposed private fields =) Thanks for the compliment. I don't know that I can stuff anything else in there, but I'm trying every day. -- - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] - Click here to reveal e-mail address "Mark" <Click here to reveal e-mail address> wrote in message news:%Click here to reveal e-mail address... [Original message clipped] Reply to this message...     System.Collections.IEnumerable System.Collections.IList System.ComponentModel.ICustomTypeDescriptor System.ComponentModel.ITypedList System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGrid System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid Ad MBR BootFX Best-of-breed application framework for .NET projects, developed by Matthew Baxter-Reynolds and MBR IT

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