Binding Background of a cell to a Property

[Hans Smit]

Hi,

I'm trying to bind the background of a GridViewDataColumn to a property in my ViewModel:

<radGrid:GridViewDataColumn Header="State" Width="090" Background="{Binding Path=State, Converter={StaticResource StateToColorConverter}}" DataMemberBinding="{Binding Path=State}"/>

Based on the value of the State property the background should change: if State = new, the background should be green, if State = rejected the value should be red, and so on.
However, if I bind the State property to the Background, i get a BindingExpression path error stating that my State property is not found on my object, while the same databinding works fine on the DataMemberBinding.
Anyone got a clue what is wrong here?

The Xaml:

<radGrid:RadGridView ItemsSource="{Binding Orders}" >

<radGrid:RadGridView.Columns>

<radGrid:GridViewDataColumn Header="State" Width="090"                                        Background="{Binding Path=State, Converter={StaticResource StateToColorConverter}}"                                        DataMemberBinding="{Binding Path=State}"/>

</radGrid:RadGridView.Columns>

</radGrid:RadGridView>

and the code from the viewModel:

private ObservableCollection<SingleOrder> _orders = new ObservableCollection<SingleOrder>()
public ObservableCollection<SingleOrder> Orders { get { return _orders; } }

public class SingleOrder
        : ViewModelBase
{
        private Instrument _instrument;
        public Instrument Instrument
        {
            get { return _instrument; }
            set
            {
                if (!Instrument.Equals(_instrument, value))
                {
                    _instrument = value;
                    this.OnPropertyChanged("Instrument");
                }
            }
        }

        private System.String _state;
        public System.String State
        {
            get { return _state; }
            set
            {
                if (!String.Equals(_state, value))
                {
                    _state = value;
                    this.OnPropertyChanged("State");

                }
            }
        }
}

Thanks a lot!

Hans

[Tsvyatko]

Hello Hans Smit,

I have prepared project based on the code snippets sent. The point here is that one need to define the binding to the cell Background (via style), rather than binding the gridview column (as it will be bound only once). Please check it and let me know if you have any other question or items.


Regards,

Tsvyatko

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[Hans Smit]

Yes!

That did the trick!
Thanks!

Hans