Bind different lists into columns in datagridview in c#

Question

I have dynamic list item. This list is not static. In view of the necessity, I will have at least one/more list. what I need is, I gotta split that list into at least two unique records. This I can part. Yet, I need to bind this list into datagridview.

This is my code: I have two list,

  List<string> list1=new List<string>();
  list1.add("THE BOOK OF BURGER");
  list1.add("The Hogwarts Library");
  list1.add("NEW Day in the Life of a Farmer");

  List<string> list2=new List<string>();
  list2.add("$200");
  list2.add("$150");
  list2.add("$170");

  .....
  list3,
  list4.. etc..

I have Datagridview. I want to bind this into data grid view as,

how might I add datasource to this datagridview? I tired to include this into datatable. In any case, I couldn't accomplish this. Any help would be truly valued.

Answer 1

You can create a BooK class and shape your data in a List<Book> and bind the grid to the list.

Book

public class Book
{
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public string Price { get; set; }
}

Bind data to DataGridView

var list = new List<Book>();
for (int i = 0; i < list1.Count; i++)
{
    list.Add(new Book()
    {
        Title = list1[i],
        Price = list2[i]
    });
}

this.dataGridView1.AutoGenerateColumns = true;
this.dataGridView1.DataSource = list;

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EDIT

Based on comments, I suppose you have a Dictionary<String, List<String>> and you want to add them dynamically to the grid.

I suppose you will use the key of dictionary as header text for the column.

//Add your lists to the dictionary
var dictionary = new Dictionary<string, List<string>>();
dictionary.Add("list1", list1);
dictionary.Add("list2", list2);
// And some othet lists ....

//Calculate the count of rows.
int rowCount = dictionary.Cast<KeyValuePair<string, List<string>>>()
                         .Select(x=>x.Value.Count).Max();

//Create the data table and for each table, add a column
var dataTable = new DataTable();
foreach (var key in dictionary.Keys)
{
    dataTable.Columns.Add(key);
}

//Add items of each list to the columns of rows of table
for (int i = 0; i < rowCount; i++)
{
    var row = dataTable.Rows.Add();
    foreach (var key in dictionary.Keys)
    {
        try
        {
            row[key] = dictionary[key][i];
        }
        catch 
        {
            row[key] = null;
        }
    }
}

//Show data in grid
this.dataGridView1.AutoGenerateColumns = true;
this.dataGridView1.DataSource = dataTable;

and here is the result: