Binding object to RadGrid

[sho]

Hi,

I have 2 class files.

public class Employee
    {
        public int EmpId { get; set; }
        public string EmpName { get; set; }
        public IList<Dept> DeptCollection { get; set; }
    }

public class Department
    {
        public int DeptId { get; set; }
        public string DeptName { get; set; }
    }

I am fetching ILIST<Employee> and binding it to my radgrid.

I want to display something like
EmpId   EmpName   DeptName

in the
<telerik:GridBoundColumn ReadOnly="true" HeaderText="Employee Name"DataField="EMP_NAME" />

but how can I bind the deptname field from the nested object?

Regards,
aradhya
           

[Daniel]

Hello Aradhya,

I'm not sure that I understand your scenario completely. I imagine that you have a collection of Employees and each of these Employees has a separate Departments collection. How do you expect to show the DeptName string by linking a single item to a whole collection?

Nevertheless, you can do something like this:

<telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="EmpId" />
<telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="EmpName" />
<telerik:GridTemplateColumn UniqueName="">
    <ItemTemplate>
        <%# GetDeptName(Eval("EmpId")) %>
    </ItemTemplate>
</telerik:GridTemplateColumn>
<telerik:GridEditCommandColumn />

protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{
    RadGrid1.NeedDataSource += (s, a) =>
        {
            RadGrid1.DataSource = GetData();
        };
     ...
}

public string GetDeptName(object EmpId)
{
    int id = (int)EmpId;

    return GetData()...
}

Regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team