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[Solved] Design Time Property Editor not always working

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Reid asked on 06 Mar 2009, 05:28 PM

I just want to report that the design time property editor of the RadGrid is not working correctly. I am not sure if this is because of the complexity of this template which contains 6 RadGrids on 3 PageViews or not but I can say that I need to switch to source view in the .aspx template to make some changes stick.

Last night late I was frustrated that the column properties set in the Builder design time editor was not yielding the correct results when the application ran so I shut down for the night and again this morning it did the same thing. I needed to manually alter the markup to get it to work.

This morning it happened again in the <EditFormSettings> section. I set the property "EditFormType" to "Template" in the properties window of Visual Studio 2008 and it did not change until I manually set the value in the markup.

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answered on 13 Mar 2009, 03:41 PM

Hello Nikolay,

I am not sure how a screen shot would help, but make no mistake about it the design time editing is not sticking columns into the markup via the editor.

Using the VS Property Window:
(this grid has one detail table section)

Expanded the MasterView
Double Clicked on the "DetailTables" property
Double Clicked on the "Columns" property
Added 3 columns (2 string and one DateTime)
Closed the Dialogs
Switched to Markup view

No columns were to be found in the <DetailTables> section.

Using the Telerik "Open Property Builder" (smart tag)

Select the Detail Table (which exists)
Select the "Columns" node
Add 3 Bound Columns
Set their properties in their entirety
Choose Apply

At this point the columns were created but *only* after hitting "Apply", just selecting "Ok" would not do it.

answered on 14 Mar 2009, 03:10 PM

Today I just brought up the Telerik Property Builder added another column named "ClientIP" and set it's properties. I then switched back to the markup and did a search for "ClientIP". Nothing. I then brought back up the Telerik Property Builder and selected the GridView and the column is there.

Really strange behavior. I am not trying to point fingers because Mickey$oft is usually the culprit when it comes to Visual Studio but at this point I am not sure what to do other than manually adding columns in the markup and bypassing the design time editor which is not my desire.

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answered on 17 Mar 2009, 08:37 AM

radgriddesigntime-vs9.zip

Hello Reid,

I have tried once again to replicate this behavior on my end in order to investigate it, but I was not able to observe it.

For your convenience I am attaching video which I captured by following steps from your previous post.
Please find it attached to this post.

Just for information the machine is running on .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1.

Best wishes,
Nikolay
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answered on 17 Mar 2009, 02:28 PM

Hello Nikolay,

Thank you for the video but you did not have to go to that extent. I can guarantee that I was writing the details accurately as I observed the behavior. Also the example you attached is an extremely simple scenario with no MasterPage. The scenario I am working with has a MasterPage (that contains the ScriptManager for all child templates) and the page in question has 5 PageViews each with it's embedded grid. The grid in question that is demonstrating this behavior is one of two on one of the PageViews. The page also uses a TabStrip. And also my page has been worked on for two weeks as opposed to your example that does it in minutes, if that matters or not I am not sure, but in general the composition of the attached example -vs- the real time scenario could indeed matter.

And again as I mentioned it is probably a Mickey$oft cache thing, or just evidence that MS releases their wares without 100% Quality Assurance being applied (as a policy, using us as their test bed saves them money >>:) ). For instance, when I switch back to design view from markup view an average of maybe one out of every 6 or 7 times VS crashes. And when it crashes I can hear the hardrive grinding away as it attempts to read VS's cached data. This directly speaks to the code or lack thereof that that is dealing with the cache that gets generated in two places on the host machine as you develop ASP.NET pages. The short is, the amount of streaming going on where and when is probably the culprit. As another example of Visual Studios 2008's problems, I can set the AlternatingStyle-BackgroundColor of a grid and it will not visually reflect it for another 5 or 6 launches.

And on a lighter note, just because I am paranoid does not mean they are not following me. :)

Thanks for your attention to this issue.