How to get the combobox items in silverlight

[Kiran]

Hi,

I am using WebAii. 2010.1 version for silverlight 3 automation.

I have to get all the ComboBoxItmes from a combobox. But i am getting empty list.

 

 

 

ComboBox cmbBox = app.Find.ByType<ComboBox>();

 

 

IList<TextBlock> blocks = cmbBox.Find.AllByType<TextBlock>();

 

 

IList<ComboBoxItem> items= cmbBox.Items;

 

 

IList<ComboBoxItem> cmbItems = cmbBox.Find.AllByType<ComboBoxItem>();

 

 

IList<FrameworkElement> cmbFrameworkItems = cmbBox.Find.AllByType("ComboBoxItem");

 

 

Thanks
Kiran

[Konstantin Petkov]

Hi Kiran,

Is this combo's drop down open when you attempt to get its items? Some components do not generate their items visually until you open/expand them.

All the best,
Konstantin Petkov
the Telerik team

[Kiran]

Hi Petkov ,

No its not getting opened at that time.
I tried opening the combobox first using click and its working now.
Thanks for your help.

Could you please tell me which are the other controls which behaves like this.

Thanks
Kiran

[Konstantin Petkov]

Hi Kiran,

I'm glad that helped.

Be aware of that when you automate also navigation controls like the tree view. As far as I remember RadTreeView (and probably other RadControls) are behaving like this. It doesn't generate the node sub items until you expand that node. The sub items are just generated on-demand.

Developers usually implement this for performance optimization reasons. They don't want the users to load that control on the page for a long time generating sub controls that may not be in use at all.

Sincerely yours,
Konstantin Petkov
the Telerik team