Sorting Datagridview datasource on List where T is anonymous

Question

A relatively simple question. I have a datagridview, which all it does is displays statistics. There is no editing/adding/deleting of rows. The datagridview is bound to a Lis

Answer 1

This is what I did base on Thomas Levesque (https://stackoverflow.com/a/4702631/1720085) and Mary Hamlin (https://stackoverflow.com/a/5805044/1720085) answers:

1) Added an extension method to my static class called Funcs

static class Funcs
{
    public static DataTable ToDataTable(this IList data)
    {
        PropertyDescriptorCollection properties = 
            TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(typeof(T));
        DataTable table = new DataTable();
        foreach (PropertyDescriptor prop in properties)
            table.Columns.Add(prop.Name, Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(prop.PropertyType) ?? prop.PropertyType);
        foreach (T item in data)
        {
            DataRow row = table.NewRow();
            foreach (PropertyDescriptor prop in properties)
                 row[prop.Name] = prop.GetValue(item) ?? DBNull.Value;
            table.Rows.Add(row);
        }
        return table;
    }
}

2) And use it like:

var query = _markets.Select(market => 
    new { _cities[market.Location].Name, market.Value}).ToList();
dataGridView1.DataSource = Funcs.ToDataTable(query);