Binding to a composite property

[Ivano]

I’m using a generic item wrapper defined as below:

    public class ItemWrapper

    {

        public State State { get; set; }

        public string Message { get; set; }

        public object Item { get; set; }

    }

    public enum State

    {

        Ok,

        Warning,

        Error

    }

 

The ItemWrapper could contain objects from different classes in the Item property; for instance:

 

ItemWrapper wrapper = new ItemWrapper();

wrapper.Item = new Company() {Id = "Acme", Desc="Acme company" };

 

The point is how to bind RadGridView columns to show both ItemWrapper columns (State and Message) and wrapped object columns ( Company.Id and Company.Desc).

Binding ItemWrapper properties is ok while the expected way for Company should be:

col.DataMemberBinding = new Binding("Item.Id");

col.DataType = typeof(string);

 

that seems, at least, to work but raising lot of exceptions:

A first chance exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in Telerik.Windows.Data.dll

 

that slow down rows loading to several second for few items (making control unusable) .

Sincerely

[Stefan Dobrev]

Hi Ivano,

Can you try to run your project without attached debugger (Ctrl+F5)? Is the performance still poor?

Regards,
Stefan Dobrev
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[Ivano]

No running project without attached debugger is fast as expected.

Regards

[Ivano]

Sorry but I've to undo my last post.
Now I've tried with a more realistic example of 8.000 items (that could not be considered a large number); even without attached debugger, the control becomes incredibly slowly, memory usage increase up to 1Gb and finally crashes with an "out of memory" error.

Regards
Ivano

[Stefan Dobrev]

Hello Ivano,

Can you try to use GridViewColumn, instread of GridViewDataColumn for this "composite property column"? You will have to set the CellTemplate property for this column.

All the best,
Stefan Dobrev
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