Provide a Collection as source to property in WPF Propertygrid - wpf

Question

I have the following property of type string.
[Category("General")]
[DisplayName("Book Name")]
public string BookName
{ //getter;
//setter;
}
When binding an object containing this property to propertygrid, I would like to provide a list of type string as source.
List<string> booksource = new List<string>();
When Property is of type enum, it automatically populates combobox, I want to acheive same functionality through collection.
Edit:
Expanded:
enum BookType
{
Novel = 0,
Magazine = 1
}
class Class1
{
string _bookname = "Book 1";
BookType _booktype = BookType.Magazine;
[Category("General")]
[DisplayName("Book Name")]
public string BookName
{
get { return this._bookname; }
set { this._bookname = value; }
}
[Category("General")]
[DisplayName("Book Type")]
public BookType BookType
{
get { return this._booktype; }
set { this._booktype = value; }
}
}
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
Class1 obj = new Class1();
this.wpfpropertygrid.SelectedObject = obj;
}
}
For the above code, the propertygrid displays a combobox with items "Magazine" and "Novel" for property BookType and a textbox with text "Book 1" for property BookName. I want the property BookName displayed as combobox to which i can explicitly provide a source. I would like to bind a list {"Book 1","Book 2","Book 3"} to property BookName, so that the user can select any one of them.

Answer 1

Better late than never ;-)
With PropertyGrid from Extended WPF Toolkit you can do this that way:
enum BookType
{
Novel = 0,
Magazine = 1
}
public class BookItemsSource : IItemsSource
{
public ItemCollection GetValues()
{
var books = new ItemCollection();
books.Add("Book 1");
books.Add("Book 2");
books.Add("Book 3");
return books;
}
}
public class Class1
{
string _bookname = "Book 1";
BookType _booktype = BookType.Magazine;
[Category("General")]
[DisplayName("Book Name")]
[ItemsSource(typeof(BookItemsSource))]
public string BookName
{
get { return this._bookname; }
set { this._bookname = value; }
}
[Category("General")]
[DisplayName("Book Type")]
public BookType BookType
{
get { return this._booktype; }
set { this._booktype = value; }
}
}
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
Class1 obj = new Class1();
this.wpfpropertygrid.SelectedObject = obj;
}
}