C#: Datagridview not displaying the data

Question

I am working on winforms application. On my form I simply drag and drop a DataGridView control and then set some of its properties using the properties window. Following is the code which I am using to populate my DataGridView. I wrote this code inside the constructor.

List<MyCustomClass> lst = new List<MyCustomClass>();
lst = LoadList(/*some params here*/);//now uptil this point everything works i.e the list contains values as desribed.
dataGridView1.DataSource = lst;

The problem is that when i run the program nothing is displayed in my DataGridView.

For more details following code represents the properties which I set using properties window

        this.dataGridView1.AllowUserToAddRows = false;
        this.dataGridView1.AllowUserToDeleteRows = false;
        this.dataGridView1.AllowUserToResizeRows = false;
        this.dataGridView1.Anchor = ((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)(((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Top | System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left)
                    | System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Right)));
        this.dataGridView1.AutoSizeColumnsMode = System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode.Fill;
        this.dataGridView1.BackgroundColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
        this.dataGridView1.ColumnHeadersHeightSizeMode = System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewColumnHeadersHeightSizeMode.AutoSize;
        this.dataGridView1.GridColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
        this.dataGridView1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(2, 329);
        this.dataGridView1.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(2);
        this.dataGridView1.MultiSelect = false;
        this.dataGridView1.Name = "dataGridView1";
        this.dataGridView1.RowHeadersVisible = false;
        this.dataGridView1.SelectionMode = System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewSelectionMode.FullRowSelect;
        this.dataGridView1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(334, 106);
        this.dataGridView1.TabIndex = 0;

Answer 1

I've got nearly the same thing today, the problem was that my clas had public fields, not properties, since i've changed them to public auto properties - worked well for me.

Answer 2

You have to create Data Columns for your datagrid. Make sure you also set 'DataPropertyName' property of each column with the respected DataSource item's property (i.e., property of 'MyCustomClass' class).