Convert RadListViewItem to custom object

[Dale Palmer]

Hi,

can anyone please help, I am in the process of converting one of our working basic repeaters into a RadListView.

On the OnItemDataBound event I want to fire some code to format items in the itemtemplate using one of our business objects "tblVehicle" with the following code:

protected void uiRptCars_ItemDataBound(object sender, Telerik.Web.UI.RadListViewItemEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Item is Telerik.Web.UI.RadListViewDataItem)
        {
            tblVehicle item = ((tblVehicle)e.Item).DataItem;
            string name = string.Format("{0} {1} {2}", item.RegDate.Year, item.Make, item.Model);
            string url = string.Format("{0} {1} {2}", item.Make, item.Model, item.RegDate.Year).ToLower().Replace(" ", "-").Replace("/", "~");
            Image uiImgCar = (Image)e.Item.FindControl("uiImgCar");
            Literal uiLitTitle = (Literal)e.Item.FindControl("uiLitTitle");
            Literal uiLitColour = (Literal)e.Item.FindControl("uiLitColour");
            Literal uiLitFuel = (Literal)e.Item.FindControl("uiLitFuel");
            Literal uiLitTrans = (Literal)e.Item.FindControl("uiLitTrans");
            Literal uiLitEng = (Literal)e.Item.FindControl("uiLitEng");
            uiLitTitle.Text = string.Format("<h3><a href='/cars-for-breaking/{0}/{1}'>{2}</a></h3>", item.VehicleId, url, name);
            uiLitColour.Text = item.Colour;
            uiLitFuel.Text = item.FuelType;
            uiLitTrans.Text = item.Transmission;
            uiLitEng.Text = item.EngineCode;
            uiImgCar.AlternateText = name;
}
}

However, at the line

tblVehicle item = ((tblVehicle)e.Item).DataItem;
I'm getting the following error: Cannot convert type 'Telerik.Web.UI.RadListViewItem' to 'tblVehicle'
I'm sure there is a simple answer to this as everything worked fine under a straightforward repeater control.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Dale

[Marin]

Hi,

 If you are binding the RadListView properly to a collection of objects of type tblVehicle then the DataItem property of the control will hold a reference to the correct object. Note that you will need to cast the DataItem property to tblVehicle and not e.Item which is always of type RadListViewDataItem:
Here is a sample code showing this approach:

var listViewDataItem = e.Item as RadListViewDataItem;
if (listViewDataItem != null)
{
      tblVehicle item = (tblVehicle)listViewDataItem.DataItem;
}

Regards,
Marin
Telerik