xml databinding

[Ryan]

Hi

Do I need to convert my xml datasource to a collection before binding to the radpanelbar or can I bind direct to an xml file?
If I can bind directly please advise how.

Many thanks.

[Ryan]

I found some example (based on treeview) to help me with this and implemented as shown, but the RadPanelBar is empty
Can someone atleast give me an idea of what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.

xml datasource:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Reports filepath="C:\Temp\ReportManagerPrototypeDemo\">
  <Category Name="Sales">
    <Report Name="SalesOctober08" description="Monthly Sales Analysis Report" read="true" created="01/10/2008" received="05/10/2008" lastedited="n/a" filename="SalesOctober2008.xps"></Report>
    <Report Name="SalesNovember08" description="Monthly Sales Analysis Report" read="true" created="01/11/2008" received="10/11/2008" lastedited="10/11/2008" filename="SalesNovember2008.xps"></Report>
    <Report Name="SalesDecember08" description="Monthly Sales Analysis Report" read="true" created="01/12/2008" received="05/12/2008" lastedited="n/a" filename="SalesDecember2008.xps"></Report>
    <Report Name="SalesJanuary09" description="Monthly Sales Analysis Report" read="false" created="04/01/2009" received="06/01/2009" lastedited="n/a" filename="SalesJanuary2009.xps"></Report>
  </Category>
  <Category>
    <Report Name="MarketingJanuary09" description="Monthly Marketing News" read="false" created="10/01/2009" received="11/01/2009" lastedited="12/01/2009" filename="MarketingJanuary2009.xps"></Report>
    <Report Name="MarketingFebruary09" description="Monthly Marketing News" read="true" created="04/02/2009" received="07/02/2009" lastedited="n/a" filename="MarketingFebruary2009.xps"></Report>
    <Report Name="MarketingMarch09" description="Monthly Marketing News" read="true" created="01/03/2009" received="03/03/2009" lastedited="13/03/2009" filename="MarketingMarch09.xps"></Report>
    <Report Name="MarketingApril09" description="Monthly Marketing News" read="false" created="04/04/2009" received="06/04/2009" lastedited="n/a" filename="MarketingApril09.xps"></Report>
  </Category>
  <Category>
    <Report Name="CompanyNewsApril09" description="Monthly Company News" read="true" created="04/04/2009" received="06/04/2009" lastedited="n/a" filename="CompanyNewsApril2009"></Report>
    <Report Name="CompanyNewsNovember08" description="Monthly Company News" read="true" created="04/11/2008" received="11/11/2009" lastedited="n/a" filename="CompanyNewsNovember2008.xps"></Report>
    <Report Name="CompanyNewsDecember2008" description="Monthly Company News" read="true" created="04/12/2008" received="08/12/2009" lastedited="n/a" filename="CompanyNewsDecember2008.xps"></Report>
  </Category>
</Reports>

XAML code:

<Grid>
        <Grid.Resources>
            <XmlDataProvider x:Key="reportData" XPath="/Reports" Source="/reportdata.xml"></XmlDataProvider>
            <HierarchicalDataTemplate DataType="Category" ItemsSource="{Binding XPath=Report}">
                <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" MouseLeftButtonDown="StackPanel_MouseLeftButtonDown">
                    <TextBlock FontWeight="Bold" Text="{Binding XPath=@Name}"></TextBlock>
                </StackPanel>
            </HierarchicalDataTemplate>
            <DataTemplate DataType="Report">
                <TextBlock Text="{Binding XPath=@Name}"></TextBlock>
            </DataTemplate>
        </Grid.Resources>

            <StackPanel>
                <my:RadPanelBar HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,0,0,357" Name="radPanelBar1" ExpandMode="Single"
                                Width="270" ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource reportData}, XPath=Reports}">
                </my:RadPanelBar>
            </StackPanel>

</Grid>

[Dimitrina]

Hi Ryan,

Thank you for your feedback. You can see a sample in the attached file.

Best wishes,
Dimitrina
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[Dimitrina]

Hello Ryan,

We forgot to attach the file. You can find it attached to this post.

Also, you can read more information on this page http://blogs.telerik.com/valentinstoychev/posts/08-08-05/How_to_Databind_RadTreeView_in_WPF.aspx

Greetings,
Dimitrina
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