Collection elements bound to GridViewColumns

[Adam]

Hello Telerik,
    first; my apologises. I have searched the GridView forum for answers to the following question and came up with nothing useful.
    The same goes for Google.

Problem:
    I have a ObservableCollection containing a 'ColumnVisibility' class - which is bound to a ComboBox control.
    But I am unable to specify a particular indexed element to the RadGridView's columns (bound to IsVisible property, see below).

<telerik:GridViewDataColumn DataMemberBinding="{Binding Path=DetailsBAMCollection.VendorName}"
                    Header="Vendor"
                    Width="*"
                    IsVisible="{Binding Path=ColumnData[0].ColumnVisible, NotifyOnSourceUpdated=True, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"/>

    
As you can see, the DataMemberBinding references a different collection and I have previously used the RadGridView's itemsource property to attach this collection to the Grid - neither gave me the desired effect (which is to hide certain columns based upon the user's ComboBox selections).

Can you give me any pointers?

[Adam]

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[Pavel Pavlov]

Hi,

Does your ColumnVisible property implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface correctly ?  Do you get binding expression errors in the output window of Visual studio ?


All the best,
Pavel Pavlov
the Telerik team

[Adam]

Hi Pavel,

Yes. ColumnVisible's property implements INotify correctly and I have configuered my Options --> Debugging --> WPF Trace Settings --> Data Binding field to "Information", which should provide me with the relevant info in output window... but I get nothing connected to the column's IsVisibility binding.

I have gotten around this problem by defining comboboxitems (containers for each set of Column-Visibility bound controls) individually in xaml (instead of using a collection of data to both create the Column-Visibility control content and GridViewdataColumn's IsVisible binding values). I then used the x:Name property to bind each checkbox's IsChecked property (the checkbox is a part of each ComboBoxItem) to its associated GridViewDataColumn. This approach has worked and I do not think that it breaks any MVVM rules... its just not very dynamic.

[Adam]

** Further Update **

After modifying a theme and applying it to my project I am now able to bind correctly to all my controls...I think the problems I had stemed from missing or modified xaml datatemplates!!