hi guys,

I am trying to display my data in datagridview. I created a class with different property and used its list as the datasource. it worked fine. but i got confused how to do that in case we have nested class.

My Classes are as follows:

class Category
   property UIN as integer
   property Name as string
end class

class item
   property uin as integer
   property name as string
   property mycategory as category
end class

my data list as follows:

dim myDataList as list(of Item) = new List(of Item)
myDataList.Add(new Item(1,"item1",new category(1,"cat1")))
myDataList.Add(new Item(2,"item2",new category(1,"cat1")))
myDataList.Add(new Item(3,"item3",new category(1,"cat1")))
myDataList.Add(new Item(4,"item4",new category(2,"cat2")))
myDataList.Add(new Item(5,"item5",new category(2,"cat2")))
myDataList.Add(new Item(6,"item6",new category(2,"cat2")))

Now I binded the datagridview control like:

DGVMain.AutoGenerateColumns = False
DGVMain.ColumnCount = 3
DGVMain.Columns(0).DataPropertyName = "UIN"
DGVMain.Columns(0).HeaderText = "ID"
DGVMain.Columns(1).DataPropertyName = "Name"
DGVMain.Columns(1).HeaderText = "Name"
DGVMain.Columns(2).DataPropertyName = "" **'here i want my category name**
DGVMain.Columns(2).HeaderText = "category"

DGVMain.datasource = myDataList
DGVMain.refresh()

I have tried using mycategory.name but it didn't worked. What can be done to get expected result? Is there any better idea other than this to accomplish the same task?