Rendering Different Colors for each row in an ASP.NET Gridview

This is simple as handling the MyGridViewName_RowDataBound event. The following code sample is used in the following scenario:

1. The grid is bound to a LINQDataSource (the e.Row.DataItem has a type of "DynamicClass" and so cannot be cast directly)
2. Consequently uses reflection to get a nested property inside the e.Row.DataItem, then casts that to a known LINQ2SQL class.
3. From this reflected information, grabs the display colour HEX value (e.g. #CCFFCC and converts it to a System.Drawing.Color colour (by using System.Drawing.ColorTranslator).

        protected void proposalListGridView_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
            {
                DoPBusiness.PlanningProposalTracking.PP_LIST_Status status = 
                    (DoPBusiness.PlanningProposalTracking.PP_LIST_Status)
                    e.Row.DataItem.GetType()
                    .GetProperty("PP_LIST_Status")
                    .GetValue(e.Row.DataItem, null);

                e.Row.BackColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml(status.DisplayColour); 
            }
        }

NB. An alternative (and preferred) to using relection to get the nested property is using LINQ projection - which is how I did it when I checked the code into source. control. However, the code sample above still illustrates the topic of this post.