Can you get the object out of a bound Rad collection control

[SethSpearman]

Hello,

I hope that someone can help me with an issue related to binding a bindable collection class to one of the Winforms Telerik list controls.  

If you bind to a plain ole windows list control like this...

    dim list as new comboBox
    
    with list
        .DataSource=myCollectionClass  'this contains a collection of widgets.
        .ValueMember="WidgetID"
        .DisplayMember="WidgetName"
    end with

I can then get a widget out of the list by doing this...

    Dim myWidget as Widget=ctype(list.Items(0),Widget)

If you do the exact same code with for example a Telerik RadListBox (same example as above)
but change line one to be   

    Dim list as new RadComboBox.  

With RadControls it seems you cannot cast to the Object type directly.  Whenever I try this I get the following error...  

    Unable to cast object of type 'Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadListBoxItem'
    to type 'Widget'.

Can someone at the least confirm that this is a known limitation of Telerik RadControls for Winforms or let me know the proper way to do it.

Thanks.

Seth

[Nikolay]

Hi SethSpearman,

You can take the data bound item by the DataItem property that RadComboBoxItem exposes. For example:

Me.Text = (CType((CType(Me.RadComboBox1.SelectedItem, RadComboBoxItem)).DataItem, Employee)).Phone

If you have additional questions, feel free to contact me.

Best wishes,
Nikolay
the Telerik team

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