Steven Bixby
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Steven Bixby
asked on 28 Oct 2008, 07:00 AM
I've been poking around various forums and help pages for a couple hours now and I'm still not sure if or how I can do this:
I'm using a RadGrid populating from a List<Obj> reference within my code; I hook this up with NeedsDataSource event. As long as all my columns reference actual properties in the object, everything is easy.
However, I also have a set of values that can vary from one query to the next; the object has a collections property containing those values. My data is read-only, so I don't need to worry about editing in the grid, at this time.
My grid's Columns collection contains a sufficient number of "generic" columns that are all marked visible=false; in my Page_Load, I can set column headers and the visible property for the custom columns. Ideally, I'd love to be able to put something like "CollectionProperty[0]" in the DataField property for the column, but I don't think this is supported. (I was hopeful, but alas!)
So then, my next thought is handling some kind of event that fires for every cell, with a reference to the underlying DataItem object that fills out the rest of the columns - I just determine which custom column is asking for data and return the correct indexed value from the collection property.
I can't seem to find such a beast, though - is there such an event? I've hooked up a number of event handlers hoping to spot something like this, and scanned the documents for a couple of hours, and I haven't found anything. Surely there's a reasonable way to do this?
I'm using a RadGrid populating from a List<Obj> reference within my code; I hook this up with NeedsDataSource event. As long as all my columns reference actual properties in the object, everything is easy.
However, I also have a set of values that can vary from one query to the next; the object has a collections property containing those values. My data is read-only, so I don't need to worry about editing in the grid, at this time.
My grid's Columns collection contains a sufficient number of "generic" columns that are all marked visible=false; in my Page_Load, I can set column headers and the visible property for the custom columns. Ideally, I'd love to be able to put something like "CollectionProperty[0]" in the DataField property for the column, but I don't think this is supported. (I was hopeful, but alas!)
So then, my next thought is handling some kind of event that fires for every cell, with a reference to the underlying DataItem object that fills out the rest of the columns - I just determine which custom column is asking for data and return the correct indexed value from the collection property.
I can't seem to find such a beast, though - is there such an event? I've hooked up a number of event handlers hoping to spot something like this, and scanned the documents for a couple of hours, and I haven't found anything. Surely there's a reasonable way to do this?
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Steven Bixby
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answered on 29 Oct 2008, 07:02 AM
"Never mind."
I found what I needed in ItemDataBound handler.
I found what I needed in ItemDataBound handler.