Binding collection of simple types (e.g. List<String>)

[Monsignor]

HI,

I want to share my experience with binding an IEnumerable<String> to a report.

Normally, you bind a collection of complex objects with public properties:

public sealed class MyType
{
  public String FirstName { get; set; }
  public String LastName { get; set; }
}


report.DataSource = new List<MyType>();

Then, in a report's textbox, you specify this expression to load the data from MyType object:

= Fields.FirstName + " " + Fields.LastName

But what if you want to just bind a list of strings without creating redundant wrapper types?

report.DataSource = new List<String>();

You can't just set "= Fields" expression to a textbox, it will produce "Incorrect use of Fields" exception. But you can set following expression and it will work (RawData is of type Object, so I guess it calls ToString() method internally):

= ReportItem.DataObject.RawData

[Steve]

Hello Monsignor,

You can use = Fields.Item as well which is meant for such purpose.

Sincerely yours,
Steve
the Telerik team

[Ashok]

Really helped me.

Thanks

[Vic]

Thank you Monsignor and Steve. It helped greatly.