Async loading at the ItemsSource Level

[Jitin Vishwakarma]

Hi,

I am loading a huge amount of data in the GridView. The objects that I load to the Grid are dynamically generated using reflection.
Normally, I call ItemsSource when I am done creating all the objects (record items) from the data. This takes very long time as it has to wait till all the objects are created. What I would like to do is asynchronously add to the ItemsSource as the objects are created. How can I achieve this?

Code snippet:
      var listType = typeof(List<>).MakeGenericType(new[] { generetedType });
      var listOfCustom = Activator.CreateInstance(listType);

for()........
{
       object generetedObject = Activator.CreateInstance(generetedType);
        // Add Values to generetedType
        ........
     listType.GetMethod("Add").Invoke(listOfCustom, new[] { generetedObject });
}

myRadGrid.ItemsSource = listOfCustom as IEnumerable;   // About 1-2 minutes spent by now.

How can I update the ItemsSource within the loop?

Thanks,
Jitin

[Vlad]

Hello Jitin,

You can use any INotifyCollectionChanged - the grid will react immediately change in such collection.

Sincerely yours,
Vlad
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[Jitin Vishwakarma]

Thanks Vlad,

When I try to create dynamic type that are derived from INotifyCollection - it turned out to be a costly affair. I takes lot more time to create objects and hence defeats the purpose. I am wondering if there is some other way to fire event to the grid to let it know that the collection changed instead of calling Rebind() ( because Rebind will refresh the whole grid - which we do not want)?

Thanks,
Jitin

[Milan]

Hello Jitin Vishwakarma,

INotifyCollectionChanged is the standard way in WPF/Silverlight for notifying that collections have changed. Luckily this interface should be only implemented by the collection that is storing the data items. As far as I can see you are using a list to store your items:

1.var listType = typeof(List<>).MakeGenericType(new[] { generetedType });
2.var listOfCustom = Activator.CreateInstance(listType);

Since ObservableCollection implements INotifyCollectionChanged you only have to substitute the List<> with ObservableCollection<> to create a collection of objects that can notify the grid when its items have changed.

Now, whenever "  listType.GetMethod("Add").Invoke(listOfCustom, new[] { generetedObject });" is executed the grid will know that something has changed.

All the best,
Milan
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