[Solved] GridViewComboBoxColumn Bind to Object rather than Id

[Heather]

I must be missing something easy here....how do I make my combobox bind to a class object rather than an id?   Ex:  I have a person object with a State property which points to a State object.  I set my combobox itemssource to an ObservableCollection(of State).  I want to bind to the Person.State property and have it update accordingly (more like what the Silverlight Combobox does).

The following does not work.  If I click on the list it shows my list of states but the combo does not populate with the selected state (the ItemsSource is set in codebehind in the DataLoading event since all my data comes from a WCF service). 

 

<telerikGridView:GridViewComboBoxColumn HeaderText="State" DataMemberBinding="{Binding Path=State, Mode=TwoWay}" DisplayMemberPath="StateName" />

v2009.2.925.1030,

 

 

[Pavel Pavlov]

Hello Heather,

I have attached a project demonstrating the desired behavior.

In case you have troubles adapting this to your needs let me know.

Best wishes,
Pavel Pavlov
the Telerik team

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[Heather]

OK - I had omitted setting the SelectedValueMemberPath entirely and that did not work.  Setting it to an empty string seemed to do the trick.  Thank you.