How to show only certain columns in a DataGridView with custom objects

Question

I have a DataGridView and I need to add custom objects to it. Consider the following code:

DataGridView grid = new DataGridView();
grid.DataSource = objects         


        

Answer 1

The easiest is that you add the "System.ComponentModel.Browsable" attributes to your DataModel:

public class TheDataModel 
{
       [System.ComponentModel.Browsable(false)]
       public virtual int ID { get; protected set; }
       public virtual string FileName { get; set; }
       [System.ComponentModel.Browsable(false)]
       public virtual string ColumnNotShown1 { get; set; }
       [System.ComponentModel.Browsable(false)]
       public virtual string ColumnNotShown2  { get; set; }
}