Autogeneration of a WPF data grid fails

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Brushing off my coding skills & got stuck for a bit on a failure to autogenerate a Data Grid’s columns. I got plenty of rows, but no columns. The secret is to ensure that your base object has publicly available members. Don’t get lazy and just expose properties.

In my example, I used a List<AppOrderingItem> as my data source. Autogeneration failed when an AppOrderingItem was

    1:  class AppOrderingItem 

    2:  { 

    3:      public string appName;

    4:   

    5:      public int numUsers; 

    6:  }

    7:   

but works great with

    1:  class AppOrderingItem 

    2:  { 

    3:      public string appName {get;set;} 

    4:      public int numUsers { get; set; }

    5:   

    6:  } 

    7:   

 

Makes sense, and a great way to punish my laziness. :)