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GridView bound to Array

Hi,
GridView beginner needs to display an array of strings.  I think I will have to use itemtemplates to display some of the strings as hyperlinks, but I am not sure how.

I want to display the grid as:
hyperlink[0,0]
text[0,1] hyperlink[0,2]
hyperlink[1,0]
text[1,1]hyperlink[1,2]
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Do you mean DataGridView or is this some other object type?
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I was assigned to use GridView. Is this not possible?  What is DataGridView?  I can't find it.
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Thanks for your help, but I got figured it out. For the next person, and this is probably not the best approach, but here is what I did:

-Filled a datatable with my array, a different column for each "category of data" in my array([0,0] was title, [0,1] was summary, [0,2] was a number - so i made 3 columns: title, summary, and number), with a mydatarow["Title"] = myArray[0,0]; mydatarow["Summary"]= myArray[0,1]...  add mydatarow to table)
- made the datatable my gridview source, and bound
-To get the desired format, I made autogenerate columns false, made an item template, then used '<%# Eval("myDataTableColumnName")%>' as the value for label text and navigateURLs.