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Alex Essilfie
Alex Essilfie

Reputation: 12613

How to override the text displayed for a property in the PropertyGrid

Given a class like this:

public class SomeClass
{
    public SomeClass()
    {
        Name = "Default";
        Values = Enumerable.Range(1,3).ToArray();
    }

    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int[] Values { get; set; }
}

A default instance of the class appears like this on a PropertyGrid control:
PropertyGrid.SelectedObject = new SomeClass();

Is it possible to override the text displayed for the Values property so it to displays something like 1, 2, 3 instead of Int32[] Array.



Solutions involving reflection and inheriting from the PropertyGrid control are welcome.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 786

Answers (1)

Daniel Kelley
Daniel Kelley

Reputation: 7737

I think you can add a TypeConverter attribute to Values:

[TypeConverter(typeof(IntArrayToStringTypeConverter))]
public int[] Values { get; set; }

Then create a IntArrayToStringTypeConverter based on the documentation. Not sure if there is already a type converter around that will do what you want.

Upvotes: 2

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