Chapters and bindings

[prog1]

Is there a way to add chapters to the RadBook? A workaround would be a RadTab with RadBooks for each chapter.
Is this the recommanded way?

If I want to bind the RadBook to a list of objects, is it possible that ervery object is represented by 2 RadBookItems (left & right page).
Do you have examples for binding and RadBook? Not tried, yet.

What I like to get is something like This:

RadBook - Product catalog
Chapter - product categories (The first 2 pages of a Chapter should describe the categorie, binding categories)
2 Sites - product (Binding on the product collection of categorie).

[Miroslav]

Hello Fabian Höger,

The RadBook can only be bound to a flat collection of items. If you want a hierarchy, then indeed you may want to use something as a TabControl + RadBook.

Another option is to flatten your hierarchy before binding it to the RadBook and use the categories / chapters in a control (like a TreeView) that will act as "contents".

In these examples the book control is databound:

http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#Book/Performance

http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#Book/Binding

All the best,
Miroslav
the Telerik team

[prog1]

Isn't there a way, that one item is represented by 2 Pages?
Do this by code and set every PageItem his own Datacontext?

[Miroslav]

Hi prog1,

There is no easy way to represent one item by two pages, the RadBook is an ItemsControl and for each data item is created one control (RadBookItem) to represent it.

I can suggest creating a ViewModel for the data that you want to represent where each original item that needs two pages is represented by two items.

Best wishes,
Miroslav
the Telerik team

[prog1]


foreach (Question item in this.context.Questions)

               {

                   RadBookItem leftItem = new RadBookItem();

                   leftItem.DataContext = item;

                   book.Items.Add(leftItem);

                   RadBookItem rightItem = new RadBookItem();

                   rightItem.DataContext = item;

                   book.Items.Add(rightItem);

               }

That what I'm doing now and it seems to work. VieModel would be an alternative.
Thank you.