[Solved] Grid over WCF: net.pipe

[peter]

Is it possible to bind a grid to a WCF service of net.pipe type instead of http ?

I tried it but I'm getting a jquery "Access denied" error. I guessing my service address is the problem.

       <%= Html.Telerik().Grid<ProjektDTO>()
              .Name("WCF")
              .DataBinding(db => db.WebService().Select("net.pipe://localhost/ProjektyService"))
              .Pageable()
              .Sortable() %>

[ServiceContract(Namespace = "")]
    [NetDataContractFormatAttribute]
    public interface IProjektyService
    {
        [OperationContract]
        GridModel GetOrders(GridState state);
    }

 [AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]
    public class ProjektyService : IProjektyService
    {


        public GridModel GetOrders(GridState state)
        {
            using (DataAccessAdapter adapter = new DataAccessAdapter())
            {
                LinqMetaData metaData = new LinqMetaData(adapter);

                var projekty = from p in metaData.TfProjekty
                                                  select new ProjektDTO
                                                             {
                                                                 Id = p.Id,
                                                                 DatumVytvorenia = p.DatumVytvorenia,
                                                                 LLBLGenProEntityName = p.LLBLGenProEntityName,
                                                                 NazovProjektu = p.NazovProjektu,
                                                                 Oz = p.Oz,
                                                                 PopisProjektu = p.PopisProjektu,
                                                                 Poznamka = p.Poznamka
                                                             };

                return projekty.ToGridModel(state);
            }
        }
    }

[peter]

Haloo no one ? :-)

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi peter,

Telerik Grid for ASP.NET MVC is using jQuery.ajax for making WCF requests. As far as I know the latter supports only HTTP requests. Which makes "net.pipe" unsupported.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

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[Joao Cardoso]

Personally I would recommend creating a viewmodel class that would deal with the WCF service invoke and bind the grid with a datasource generated from that.

That way you can use whatever binding you need to the wcf service and at the same time provide some translation of service results to a more friendly viewmodel to bind to your view.

The overhead of this is not that much and the advantages are significant. For instance you can decorate your viewmodel class with attributes on required fields, and such. If you plan to use the same viewmodel for edit that is.

Just my 2 cents,

Cheers

Joao Cardoso