How to convert the DataGridView content into a List<> of custom objects?

Question

I'm working on a Windows Forms application, written with C#.

I found someone's suggestion on how to create a List<> from DataGridView control, but I need little more help on how to extract cell values.

Here is the code given; let's say two columns in the dataGridView1 are Name and Address.
How to build the List<ProjList> object?

foreach (DataGridViewRow dr in dataGridView1.Rows)
{
    ProjList = new List<ProjectMasterRec>();

    foreach (DataGridViewCell dc in dr.Cells)
    {
        // build out MyItem
        // based on DataGridViewCell.OwningColumn and DataGridViewCell.Value
        // how do we code this?
    }

    ProjList.Add(item);
}

Answer 1

Try It this Way

Create a list of your class type

List<ProjectMasterRec>() ProjList = new List<ProjectMasterRec>(); 

Make Sure that type of list belongs to type of your data in Datagridview

foreach (DataGridViewRow dr in dataGridView1.Rows)
{
    //Create object of your list type pl
    ProjectMasterRec pl = new ProjectMasterRec();
    pl.Property1 = dr.Cells[1].Value;
    pl.Property2 = dr.Cells[2].Value;
    pl.Property3 = dr.Cells[3].Value;

    //Add pl to your List  
    ProjList.Add(pl);     
}

Answer 2

If you are able to use LINQ, you can do something like this:

var projectList = (from row in dataGridView1.Rows.OfType<DataGridViewRow>()
                   select new ProjectMasterRec() 
                   { Name = row.Cells["Name"].Value.ToString(),
                     Address = row.Cells["Address"].Value.ToString() 
                   }).ToList();

Answer 3

The following should work, myArray should be an array of the type you need, you can find out the array size using (DataGrid1.DataSource as BindingSource).List.Count.

(DataGrid1.DataSource as BindingSource).List.CopyTo(myArray, 0);