Column Order in a DataGridView with BindingList as DataSource

I am having problems getting the column order in a DataGridView object to display how I want it. Here are my objects:

Data object

class CData
{
//data members
private uint id;
private string name;
private object otherstuff;
//constructor
... //standard
//get / set
public uint ID{
get{ return id; }
set{ id = value; }
}
... //basic get/set for the other data members


I then create multiple CData objects and place them in a List<CData> object "myList". When I go to bind this list to a DataGridView I use the following code

BindingList<CData> bindlist = new BindingList<CData>(myList);
myDataGridView.DataSource = bindlist;
myDataGridView.Refresh()


the problem comes when my form is shown and my data is presented. Currently I can not figure out how to order the columns generated from my CData class properties. By default I thought they would show up in the order that they are declared like:

| ID | Name | OtherData |

but I find that the order is chosen at random (or some other factor I can not figure out) and they display something like:

| OtherData | ID | Name |



Now normally this wouldnt be too big of a problem but in my real world application I am using a Data object with over 100 fields which are generated from a file with a strict structure layout and it is critical that I see my columns in the proper order.

I hope I explained this properly and would appreciate any help that can be offered on the matter.

Thank you.

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