Cannot Add multiple chunks programmatically

[Clatonh]

Hello everyone,

    Not sure if this has been discussed before, But I am using a code mentioned in the Help to add multiple chunks.

Dim RadRibbonBarChunk1 As RadRibbonBarChunk = New RadRibbonBarChunk()
Dim RadRibbonBarChunk2 As RadRibbonBarChunk = New RadRibbonBarChunk()
Dim RadRibbonBarChunk3 As RadRibbonBarChunk = New RadRibbonBarChunk()
RadRibbonBarChunk1.Text = "Options"
RadRibbonBarChunk2.Text = "Text"
RadRibbonBarChunk3.Text = "Alignment"
Dim RadRibbonBarCommandTab1 As RadRibbonBarCommandTab = radRibbonBar1.CommandTabs(0)
RadRibbonBarCommandTab1.Items.AddRange(New Telerik.WinControls.RadElement() { _
    RadRibbonBarChunk1, RadRibbonBarChunk2, RadRibbonBarChunk3})

Unfortunately it gives me an Error in the above statement, 
System.InvalidCastException was unhandled
  Message="Unable to cast object of type 'Telerik.WinControls.RadElement[]' to type 'Telerik.WinControls.RadItem[]'."

Can someone help me to add multiple chunks or tell me what am I doing wrong here...

Regards
Clatonh

[Todd Anglin]

Clatonh-

Sorry for the trouble. It appears the the documentation has a typo. You should be creating a collection of RadItems instead of a collection of RadElements. Change your code to look like this and you should be fine:

Dim RadRibbonBarChunk1 As RadRibbonBarChunk = New RadRibbonBarChunk()
Dim RadRibbonBarChunk2 As RadRibbonBarChunk = New RadRibbonBarChunk()
Dim RadRibbonBarChunk3 As RadRibbonBarChunk = New RadRibbonBarChunk()
RadRibbonBarChunk1.Text = "Options"
RadRibbonBarChunk2.Text = "Text"
RadRibbonBarChunk3.Text = "Alignment"
Dim RadRibbonBarCommandTab1 As RadRibbonBarCommandTab = radRibbonBar1.CommandTabs(0)
RadRibbonBarCommandTab1.Items.AddRange(New Telerik.WinControls.RadItem() { _
    RadRibbonBarChunk1, RadRibbonBarChunk2, RadRibbonBarChunk3})

Let me know if that solves your problem.

Thanks~
Todd

[Vassil Petev]

Thank you for the help, Todd. Indeed, there is a typo in the docs, which has been fixed. The new version of the documentation will be available with SP2.


Sincerely yours,
Rob
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[Clatonh]

Thanks a lot Todd, this solves the prb.

Regards,
Claton