Displaying a collection of objects in a .Net grid on a smartphone without data binding.

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I know there's No DataGridView in the CF, but I've got a collection of in-memory objects that I want to display in a grid on a phone.

Options I have thought of:

Stick all the objects into a SQL-CE database and use a bound datagrid. This'll mean pulling my classes apart and separating the data from the functionality, which may or may not be a bad thing, but seems a little overkill.
Write my own dataset and binding code so that I can bind my collection of objects to a bound datagrid. No idea how practical or possible this is, but seems like it's either do-able or impossible and I'm hoping someone here knows which!
Find a third-party unbound grid control. The only one I've seen mentioned is OpenNetCF, which I'm downloading as I type. Are there others? Are any of them any good?
Do something very nasty with dynamically loading labels and textboxes into a scrolling region on the form. REALLY don't want to go there.

I'm not much experienced with data-bound controls other than occasionally making use of the very vanilla functionality in WinForms or ASP.Net, and that quite a long time ago, so if any of the above are silly, please be gentle.

Thanks

Xav

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