How do I implement automatic sorting of DataGridView?

Question

I am programmatically adding columns to a DataGridView and then binding to a list. By default, the SortMode of the columns are Automatic. But when I run my app, clicking o

Answer 1

We use BindingListView to bind Lists to DataGridViews, and it's worked beautifully for us.

Here is a very simple example of creating a view of a list of objects (in C#):

List customers = GetCustomers();
BindingListView view = new BindingListView(customers);
dataGridView1.DataSource = view;

Check out https://stackoverflow.com/a/17952576/116891 for a lot more details about DGV sorting and databinding.

If you don't want to add something that heavy, you can try this implementation of a SortableBindingList (with updates).

Both give you sorting right out of the box, and BindingListView is even faster than DataViews, according to their benchmarks.