[Solved] Binding ItemsSource to a gridview in a RadWindow

[Licenses]

Hello,

I have a problem involving databinding a GridView that is placed in a RadWindow.

When I create a GridView like this, everything works fine:

<telerikGrid:RadGridView Name="ResultsGrid" ItemsSource="{Binding Results}" AutoGeneratingColumn="ResultsGrid_AutoGeneratingColumn" IsReadOnly="True" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"></telerikGrid:RadGridView>

As soon as the PropertyChanged-event of the Results is raised, my GridView databinds perfectly. However, when I put the same GridView in a RadWindow and call ShowDialog on the window, the GridView doesn't respond to the NotifyPropertyChanged-event anymore, and my GridView remains empty.

<telerikNavigation:RadWindow x:Name="ResultsWindow">
    <telerikGrid:RadGridView Name="ResultsGrid" ItemsSource="{Binding Results}" AutoGeneratingColumn="ResultsGrid_AutoGeneratingColumn" IsReadOnly="True" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"></telerikGrid:RadGridView>
</telerikNavigation:RadWindow>

The solution I use now, is to manually listen to the propertychanged event and set the ItemsSource of the GridView:

_viewModel.PropertyChanged += new System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventHandler(ViewModel_PropertyChanged);

...

void ViewModel_PropertyChanged(object sender, System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.PropertyName == "Results")
        this.ResultsGrid.ItemsSource = ViewModel.Results;
}

This works, but of course using Bindings for the ItemsSource would have been much easier. So I was wondering, is this a bug or did I do something wrong?

Greetings
Sodi

[Hristo]

Hello Sodi We,

When you call Show or ShowDialog RadWindow is moved to a popup controls. This mean that when RadWindow is remove from the visual tree and lose DataContext change notifications.
So in order to work you have to set RadWindow DataContext to the ViewModel that you use to bind the RadGridView.

Let us know if you need more information.

Greetings,
Hristo
the Telerik team

[Licenses]

I tried to add the following line before and after calling ShowDialog(), but with no success:

this.ResultsWindow.DataContext = this.DataContext;

However, I will stick the solution in my first post, since there are also some other reasons now to set the itemssource explicitly instead of with bindings.

Sodi

[Ben]

Hi
I am facing a similar issue. i have a list view in a radwindow. the listview only shows the values if i changes the height or width of the window. The databinding is working fine since it shows the data after i change the with or height of the window
Am i missing something here.
Any help is much appretiated
thanks

[Miroslav Nedyalkov]

Hi Ben,

 I cannot clearly understand what your scenario is. Could you please open a support ticket and send us a sample project that represents the issue? This would help us better understand what goes wrong.

Kind regards,
Miroslav Nedyalkov
the Telerik team