Binding to IEnumerable<> with open ended children

[Michael]

Hello,

We're using the Telerik WinForms RadGridView and populating the DataSource with a generic IEnumerable<>. There can be children, and children of children, open ended, that I want to show hierarchy.

Something like this: Product -> Features -> Features -> Features (yes, the features can have features). I want to show these in the list hierarchically.

Best regards,

Michael

[Michael]

Actually I should also mention, we're on an older version of Telerik WinForms, 2011 Q1 I think or something like that.

I'm reading the online docs: http://www.telerik.com/help/winforms/gridview-hierarchical-grid-binding-to-hierarchical-data-automatically.html

Seems like some of the properties that are mentioned we don't have. What gotchas should we be aware of upgrading from there to current version?

Mainly we are in WinForms, VS2010, 32-bit processes, .NET 3.5 (that's a killer right now, components stuck at that version until we can replace them).

Thank you...

[Julian Benkov]

Hello Michael,

You can use the load-on-demand hierarchy mode to achieve your scenario. More information about load-on-demand hierarchy you can find in our online documentation.

Please upgrade your Winforms suite to latest version. From Q1 2011 to the current Q2 2012 release we have made more fixes and improvements to RadGridView control and all other UI controls. In the latest release we also introduced a major update of our theming mechanism to decrease memory footprint and improve performance.

I hope this information is useful. Let me know if you need further assistance.

Kind regards,
Julian Benkov
the Telerik team