Filter BindingSource when DataSource is a BindingList

Question

I have read from a excel sheet and wrote this for a BindingList, in Form_Load this is set to a DataSource as BindingSource:

bd = new BindingSource(); //insta         


        

Answer 1

You can not use Filter property to filter a BindingSource which it's DataSource is set to a BindingList.

Only underlying lists that implement the IBindingListView interface support filtering.

You can filter the BindingList using Linq:

var filteredBindingList= new BindingList(bindingList.Where(x=>some criteria).ToList());

Then you can use filtered binding list as data source.