Bindable Types

You can bind RadGridView to a wide variety of data-sources. The data-source must implement IEnumerable interface in general. You can further customize the binding of RadGridView using ITypedList/ICustomTypeDescriptor/INotifyPropertyChange interfaces together with your business objects.

• RadGridView follows the standard Windows Forms data-binding model. It can data bind to any *data-source *implementing one of the following interfaces:      

  • IList interface for one-dimensional arrays.

  • IListSource interface (like DataTable and DataSet classes).

  • IBindingList interface. For example the generic BindingList<> class.

  • IBindingListView interface. For example BindingSource class.

• Simple collections, such as arrays, containing elements of the same type.

RadGridView understands the following bindable property types:

• All primitive types: bool, byte, sbyte, char, short, ushort, int, uint, long, ulong, decimal, double, float, DateTime, etc.

• GUID

• String

• TimeSpan

• Enum types

• Nullable types

See Also

• Bind to XML

• Binding to a Collection of Interfaces

• Binding to Array and ArrayList

• Binding to BindingList

• Binding to DataReader

• Binding to EntityFramework using Database first approach

• Binding to Generic Lists

• Binding to ObservableCollection