RadGridView - Problem Styling in Expression Blend (Invalid XAML)

[James Miles]

Hi Guys,

I'm having trouble styling the "Rad Grid View" in Expression Blend.

I can drop the RadGridView onto the design surface, however when I click "Edit Additional Templates" & select "Edit RowStyle", the XAML produced can't be loaded by the blend designer.

Visibility="{Binding HasHierarchy, Converter={StaticResource

BooleanToVisibilityConverter}, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}"

(Note: I tried to attach a file including example code however it doesn't work.)

I'm using;
RadControls CSharp Silverlight Project
VisualStudio 2008
Silverlight 3
Blend 3 + SketchFlow

I created the project using your Silverlight C# Rad Controlsolution template.

Cheers,
James

[Vlad]

Hi James,

Can you post more info about the grid version? Do you have our latest service pack (Q3 SP2)?

Sincerely yours,
Vlad
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[James Miles]

I downloaded it yesterday. Version = 2009.3.1314.1030

[Kalin Milanov]

Hi James Miles,

For some reason Blend reports this part of the XAML as invalid although this is not the case. Fixing this or finding a way around it is our top priority at the moment as it destroys the Blend support for the control. We are hopeful these issues will be gone for our 2010.Q1 release.

I apologize for the inconvenience this is causing you.

All the best,
Kalin Milanov
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[Robin Das]

Hi,

Was this issue fixed in  2010.Q1.  I get a similar issue when trying to create a cell style, invalid XAML in SL3 and no error in VS from the generated XAML.  I have not made a purchase as yet but it would be good to know before my trial runs out.

Thanks Rob

[Robin Das]

Update :

I found a way around the issue... couldn't tell you exactly but it was a comination of switching to VS, re-building, switching back to SL3, closeing and reloading SL3.

Appologies for the mini rant in my last post.

Thanks,
Rob

[Marc Roussel]

If this can help.

I had a lot of problem styling any Telerik control.  It was always crashing in Blend 3 until I figure out that I was creating my Style in the THIS DOCUMENT instead of the RESOURCE DICTIONARY.

When I was using RESOURCE DICTIONARY which is what I have every single styling worked.