Hi,
with today's release of PropertyGrid I started switching some parts of my projects to use it. During this I asked myself if the standard DataAnnotations (Display: Description, GroupName) are supported. As I realized they are not at the moment. I know it is still a beta but are you going to add support for those attributes?
In addition to that I tried to make complex types editable but was not able to do that. Some time ago I posted an issue (http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/silverlight/data-form/dataform-as-property-inspector.aspx) asking for a PropertyGrid behaviour, where you can edit not only the object and its simple types (string, date, numbers, ...) but also types that contain such properties themself. So for example if a person has a address property, which contains street, postal code and city, I can edit it while also editing the persons phone number. This is very similar to GridView's HierarchicalDataTemplate. Any plans to implement such hierarchical structure?
Thanks in advance,
Peter
PS: You did a great job with Q2. Looking forward to Metro UI too!
with today's release of PropertyGrid I started switching some parts of my projects to use it. During this I asked myself if the standard DataAnnotations (Display: Description, GroupName) are supported. As I realized they are not at the moment. I know it is still a beta but are you going to add support for those attributes?
In addition to that I tried to make complex types editable but was not able to do that. Some time ago I posted an issue (http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/silverlight/data-form/dataform-as-property-inspector.aspx) asking for a PropertyGrid behaviour, where you can edit not only the object and its simple types (string, date, numbers, ...) but also types that contain such properties themself. So for example if a person has a address property, which contains street, postal code and city, I can edit it while also editing the persons phone number. This is very similar to GridView's HierarchicalDataTemplate. Any plans to implement such hierarchical structure?
Thanks in advance,
Peter
PS: You did a great job with Q2. Looking forward to Metro UI too!
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Hello Peter,
Thank you for the nice words !
Since the purpose of our beta releases is getting in touch with clients and synchronizing their demand with our plans, I am grateful for your feedback . I have talked to the team and we agree that at least a partial data annotations support should be added for the Property grid .
We are starting to work on it so that the basic feature could occur for the very next official release.
Regarding your second request - support for nested objects:
The current version "kind of" supports such scenario. The property definitions may be customized and custom editors may be placed instead of the default ones - including a more complex control for editing nested properties.
I will be glad to hear your expectations on how such functionality may be implemented - e.g. nested property grids, popup or a custom control ? Any feedback is highly appreciated.
One more time thanks for the feature request . i am updating your Telerik points.
Greetings,
Pavel Pavlov
the Telerik team
Thank you for the nice words !
Since the purpose of our beta releases is getting in touch with clients and synchronizing their demand with our plans, I am grateful for your feedback . I have talked to the team and we agree that at least a partial data annotations support should be added for the Property grid .
We are starting to work on it so that the basic feature could occur for the very next official release.
Regarding your second request - support for nested objects:
The current version "kind of" supports such scenario. The property definitions may be customized and custom editors may be placed instead of the default ones - including a more complex control for editing nested properties.
I will be glad to hear your expectations on how such functionality may be implemented - e.g. nested property grids, popup or a custom control ? Any feedback is highly appreciated.
One more time thanks for the feature request . i am updating your Telerik points.
Greetings,
Pavel Pavlov
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answered on 09 Jul 2011, 11:27 AM
Hello Pavel,
thank you for your insight on DataAnnotations. I am really looking forward to this, as it will make your component easier to use and more powerful!
For the PropertyGrid I did a little collage ;-). It is attached to this post. But lets add some description to it. The fields First, Last and Phone are just basic edit controls of the edited type's properties. Address is also a property but of a complex type. Instead of showing the namespace (current situation of PropertyGrid) it would be nice if I could expand it and edit its simple properties. This should be an recursive approach (see AppSettings property).
A more complex scenario is the Projects property. When I was creating the screenshot I thought it would be really cool, if there was a VisualStudio kind of experience when editing lists. Just click the ... and you get a popup where you can manage the list of projects. I can imagine how hard this is to implement so it is just a proposal. The nested properties have a much higher priority for my work.
I hope you can imagine how this should work. Thank you for listening to my requests.
Greetings,
Peter
thank you for your insight on DataAnnotations. I am really looking forward to this, as it will make your component easier to use and more powerful!
For the PropertyGrid I did a little collage ;-). It is attached to this post. But lets add some description to it. The fields First, Last and Phone are just basic edit controls of the edited type's properties. Address is also a property but of a complex type. Instead of showing the namespace (current situation of PropertyGrid) it would be nice if I could expand it and edit its simple properties. This should be an recursive approach (see AppSettings property).
A more complex scenario is the Projects property. When I was creating the screenshot I thought it would be really cool, if there was a VisualStudio kind of experience when editing lists. Just click the ... and you get a popup where you can manage the list of projects. I can imagine how hard this is to implement so it is just a proposal. The nested properties have a much higher priority for my work.
I hope you can imagine how this should work. Thank you for listening to my requests.
Greetings,
Peter
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Hi Peter,
Thank you for t the detailed description ! We are definitely going to consider your feedback while planning the improvements for our next release. Although at this stage I can not commit to a specific release date , I believe these are plausible to appear in our very next official release. I am updating your Telerik points.
Greetings,
Pavel Pavlov
the Telerik team
Thank you for t the detailed description ! We are definitely going to consider your feedback while planning the improvements for our next release. Although at this stage I can not commit to a specific release date , I believe these are plausible to appear in our very next official release. I am updating your Telerik points.
Greetings,
Pavel Pavlov
the Telerik team
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