Binding to Observable collection

[Keith Stephens]

Hello,

I am creating a page that shows a RadListView of employees, and when an employee is selected I need to populate a radgrid with some further information.

I want to create on observable collection and then bind to my grid. (I can do this ok), but my problme now is how do I get the Paging and sorting ect.. to work.
I am having a difficult time doing this so examples would be great.

Thanks
Keith.

[Tsvetina]

Hi Keith,

The ObservableCollection<T> class is created for the purposes of two way binding which is not a feature of ASP.NET applications. Therefore, it is not supported by RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX and I would suggest you to either use a Silverlight GridView for this purpose or switch to some other collection class to hold your data.

Greetings,
Tsvetina
the Telerik team

[Keith Stephens]

Thank you for your reply, can you offer any advice on what I can or should use.  I used the observable collection because I have used your silverlight grid in the past.  And that is the only way I know to bind using objects.  I am not familiar with your .net ajax controls which is what I need to use now.

I am trying to get paging, sorting ect.. to work, but use my objects rather than binding to the asp:sqldatasource control.

Thanks,
Keith.

[Tsvetina]

Hi Keith,

RadGrid supports binding to various other data sources. You can see our documentation on server-side binding in this section of our online help and also an online demo demonstrating binding to different types of datasource.

As long as you bind the control in theNeedDataSource event to a supported datasource, sorting, filtering, paging will work by default.

Best wishes,
Tsvetina
the Telerik team