Presentation of Data in the DataGrid

[Johnny Cash]

I have what I believe is a basic question about presentation of data
in a DataGrid.

My DataGrid is backed by a DataTable that has a number of key values,
for example, the number 1 in the country column might represent
Australia. However, I want to go against a "look up" table to actually
present "Australia" rather than 1. Is there a best practice for
something like this. I am hoping that it is integrated with Visual
Studio but I can't seem to find the best way to do it. Is this
something that must be hand coded?

Your advice is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
AR.

[Alvin Bruney [MVP]]

one approach which avoids a database lookup and a table search is to bring
back the discription in another column and keep that column hidden
e.item.cells[0].visible = false for example. when you want to lookup 1 which
is in cell one you have merely to write out the value e.item.cells[0].text

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Alvin Bruney
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>I have what I believe is a basic question about presentation of data
> in a DataGrid.
>
> My DataGrid is backed by a DataTable that has a number of key values,
> for example, the number 1 in the country column might represent
> Australia. However, I want to go against a "look up" table to actually
> present "Australia" rather than 1. Is there a best practice for
> something like this. I am hoping that it is integrated with Visual
> Studio but I can't seem to find the best way to do it. Is this
> something that must be hand coded?
>
> Your advice is greatly appreciated!
> Thanks,
> AR.