DataPointTemplate in code

[Steven]

Hi,

just wondering how to instantiate and assign a data point template to a series in code, not XAML.

Is this possible?

[Bartholomeo Rocca]

Hello Steven,

The easiest way would be a "hybrid" approach with XamlReader.Load(...) like this:

BarSeries series = new BarSeries();
series.PointTemplate = System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader.Load(@"
<DataTemplate xmlns=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"">
    <Rectangle Fill=""Yellow"" HorizontalAlignment=""Stretch"" VerticalAlignment=""Stretch"" />
</DataTemplate>") as DataTemplate;

Greetings,
Bart.

[Steven]

thanks for the response.

is a slightly harder way possible with new ABC() { veriousProperies = X} possible?

[Steven]

Telerik: Is the parse method the only way forward?

[Giuseppe]

Hello Steven,

Yes, this is the only way in Silverlight -- check this msdn article here ("The XAML usage that defines the content for creating a data template is not exposed as a settable property. It is special behavior built into the XAML processing of a DataTemplate object element.").


Kind regards,
Giuseppe
the Telerik team

[Steven]

thanks for suggesting this direction.  I'm getting better at debugging and mostly attribute errors to parse or namespace errors now.  It seems a bit of a waste of XAML power to need to do it this way, but so long as it is used sparingly I guess this is okay.