Create ComboBox with values from Sortedlist object

[Sven]

Hi,

I am currently making my first
experiences with Kendo UI and a ASP.NET MVC 4 project. At the moment I have a
list stored in a standard .Net System.Collections.Sortedlist object and would
like to fill a Kendo UI combobox with the values from that list. I also tried
to first build a Kendo datasource object, that contains the elements from that
Sortedlist, but I could not get that to work.

How can I:

• fill a Kendo UI combobox with elements from a .Net System.Collections.Sortedlist

object?

or

• fill a Kendo UI datasource (which I will later use to create the combobox)

with elements from a .Net System.Collections.Sortedlist object?

Regards

Sven

[Daniel]

Hello Sven,

The SortedList(or any dictionary)is serialized as object and the ComboBox expects an array. You should project the sorted list to a collection of objects in order to bind it to the ComboBox or set it as data to the dataSource e.g.

@model SortedList<string,string>

@(Html.Kendo().ComboBox()
  .Name("combo")
  .DataTextField("Text")
  .DataValueField("Value")
  .BindTo(Model.Select(k => new SelectListItem
        {
            Text = k.Value,
            Value = k.Key
        }))
 )

Regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team