Q1 - 2009 casting error

[Ryan Emptage]

Unable to cast object of type 'Telerik.Reporting.Processing.Data.DataGroup' to type 'System.Data.DataRowView'

on this code:

_memberId = int.Parse(((System.Data.DataRowView)(itemBase.DataObject))["MemberID"].ToString());

So what do I cast the DataObject to now ?

[Ryan Emptage]

sorry, here's the code in full, might make more sense now.

//Get the member id
            Processing.ReportItemBase itemBase = (Processing.ReportItemBase)sender;
            _memberId = int.Parse(((System.Data.DataRowView)(itemBase.DataObject))["MemberID"].ToString());

[Ryan Emptage]

Its ok now.
I worked out I needed to change the cast from DataObject.RawData to System.Data.DataRow

[Ryan Emptage]

oops, spoke to soon....I now get ArgumentOutOfRangeException

"Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index"

Processing.ReportItemBase itemBase = (Processing.ReportItemBase)sender;
DataRow drv = (DataRow)itemBase.DataObject.RawData;

[Milen | Product Manager @DX]

Hello Ryan Emptage,

We apologize for the lack of information on using the DataObject property. The help content will be updated for the next release.

So you have figured out correctly that the RawData property of IDataObject returns the raw data that the sender is bound to. It may be System.Data.DataRow (if you are using datasets) or for example a business object if you are binding to some list of business objects.

The other helpful member is the string indexer. You can directly get the value of some column/property of your data object. Try using itemBase.DataObject["MemberID"] to get the value you need.

If you receive some unexpected errors, please send us a sample report with its data so that we can reproduce the error and help you further.

Kind regards,
Milen
the Telerik team

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[Sypher]

Ryan,

Seems this just changed in 2009 Q1.  It was working the way you had it in the 2008 releases.  I had the same object casting that you had, probably from a sample we saw somewhere.  I got it to work this way:

_memberId = int.Parse(itemBase.DataObject["MemberID"].ToString());

So I didn't have to cast the Telerik.Reporting.Processing.Data.DataGroup DataObject any longer. 

We both must have missed the breaking change warning in the update release notes.

[David Penrose]

What a find. I was looking at a long night until I came across your solution.

Thanks!