DataBinding in DataGrid

[lesliedomjones]

hello all,
I have created a two dimenstional array and try to bind to a datagrid as shown below. But I could not get the array values in the datagrid. Instead It is binding the properties of the array.. I could not find why it is happening. Could any one please explain why it is happening and how databinding is done in datagrid or asp.net?

the code is,
string[][] arr = new string[2][];
arr[0][] = {"a", "b"};
arr[1][] = {"c", "d"};

datagrid.DataSource = arr;
datagrid.DataBind();

Thanks in Advance

Regards,
leslie

 

[MaryDia]

You can bind an array as datasource for a grid (in this case for example, the first array of jagged array),and can see the values that are containd in it:

string[][] arr = new string[2][];

arr[0] = new String[] {"a","b"};
arr[1] = new String[] {"c","d"};

DataGrid1.DataSource = arr[0];
DataGrid1.DataBind();//The result is: a,b in datagrid

When you bind a jagged array, the values contained in this object that can be displayed in datagrid are the attributes of jagged array.
(You can look in msdn for the objects that can be data source and the interfaces that have to implement.)

Hope this help,
Mary