Hi,

Not really a Telerik product specific question but you guys make some awesome controls and seems to have a deep insight into .net custom controls.

In .net 4.5 the ItemType property was introduced which when specified provides intellisense/strongly typed access to the type which a data control is bound to. 

Repeater - which interits from Control has this property, 

I've tried to figure out how this mechanism works but all the tutorials and articles on this property only describe how to use it, not how to implement it in custom controls. 

Maybe you guys could shed some light on this? 

Hello Shamrez,

Your custom control needs to inherit the class DataBoundControl in order to support strongly-typed binding and model binders. This will also give you access to the ItemType property for specifying the name of the data item type that will be used for the binding.

I hope this helps. Feel free to contact us again if you run into more difficulties.

Regards,
Slav
Telerik