Any ItemSourceControl for WPF RadGridView?

[tzuhsun]

I trying to bind a "weakly-typed" data list into RadGridView, I considered IList<>, ObservableCollection<> but I think they not suit my scenario because I need to define type of element in those collections.

I found RadDataPager later but I do not need paging feature.

I wonder whether WPF RadGridView can bind to something like "DataTable" like in WinForm, but I asking it for WPF in case there is any ready component in Telerik WPF.

Anyway this is my scenario, single RadGridView is use and ready to receive data collection which may consist of different data type.

Please advise, thanks

[Vlad]

Hello,

 There will be no problem to bind the grid to DataTable. 

Best wishes,
Vlad
the Telerik team

[tzuhsun]

Hi, in my case a preview pane going to bind to that RadGridView when a row is selected, if use DataTable, would it affect the binding between GridView and preview pane?

[tzuhsun]

Read this in RadGridView online Documentation:

Unlike a standard items control, the RadGridView's ItemsSource property is declared to be of type System.Object.

Therefore use System.object will do. :)

sample code as follows:


private ObservableCollection<Employee> _employeeCollection;
private object _gridResult;

private void Search()
{
    var employeeList = DAL.GetEmployeeList();

    _employeeCollection = new ObservableCollection<Employee>();
    _employeeCollection.AddRange(employeeList);

    _gridResult = _employeeCollection;

    // Next is expose _gridResult to a property, and bind that into RadGridView in xaml.
}

Thanks for the time spend on this.