newbie in trouble: binding a mongodb collection to a .net grid

[jmls]

I'm trying to learn c#, visual studio 10 and MongoDB all in one hit. Masochist. 

However, I've created a "book" class, and got my form to connect to Mongo, read all the data, and messagebox it.

What I want to do is to connect by Book collection

using MongoDB.Bson;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1

{

    class Book

    {

        public ObjectId _id { get; set; }

        public string Title { get; set; }

        public string Author { get; set; }

    }

}

to a data grid and show the results in there. I can bind the datasource to the book class, but don't know where to go from there. 

I can't seem to create a datasource directly from the collection either.

I know I'm missing something very simple, so please go gentle on my old brain ;)

thanks.

Code for the form is below

public partial class Form1 : Form

    {

        public MongoServer mongo;

        public Form1()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

            mongo = MongoServer.Create();

            mongo.Connect();

            var db = mongo.GetDatabase("tutorial");

            using (mongo.RequestStart(db))

            {

                var collection = db.GetCollection<Book>("books");

                Book newBook = new Book()

                {

                     Author = "Ernest Hemingway",

                     Title = "For Whom The Bell Tolls"

                };

               //collection.Insert(newBook); 

               var query = new QueryDocument("Author", "Ernest Hemingway");

             

               foreach (Book item in collection.Find(query))

               {

                   MessageBox.Show("Author: " + item.Author + " Title:" + item.Title);

               } 

            }

            

        }

        private void Form1_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)

        {

            mongo.Disconnect();

        }

    }

[craiggwilson]

Once you have the collection back from mongodb, then you are in WinForms land.  I'd suggest you use a BindingList<Book> in this example, so something like this:

var bindindList = new BindingList<Book>(collection.Find(query));

gridView.DataSource = bindingList;

Forgive me if I've missed a step here, it's been a while :)

[jmls]

Thank you , that sorted the problem. For the record, I was able to use this code

               gridControl1.DataSource = new BindingList<Book>(db.GetCollection<Book>("books").FindAll().ToList());