[Solved] dataItem returns null

[Christopher Ronak]

Hello, in version 2011.3.1115 of the telerik grid, if the server returns a fully populated grid then on the client side doing a tGrid.dataItem() seems to always return null.  Checking the release notes of the April release we did not see a note about this issue and were wondering if this was a known issue.  (Clicking refresh on the client will resolve the issue but seems silly since the grid should already have the data on initialize)

On the server we would be doing something like

<%= Html.Telerik().Grid(Model.Items)
             ....

%>

And on the client we would be doing something like

var tGrid = $('#Grid').data("tGrid");
return tGrid.dataItem($('#Grid tr.t-state-selected'));

[Pechka]

Yo

<%= Html.Telerik().Grid(Model.Items)

Exactly this codes causes the behavior you described. Because when the Grid is bound on the server there are no JavaScript objects representing your collection.
Let the Grid gets its data with an Ajax call if you want to have tGrid.dataItem() to return something.