How do I access component within

[s2uiguy]

Hi - I have a RadGridView that I have created a custom cell template for one of the columns to display a label and a progress bar.
At certain times I will be receiving a message from the backend that will require me to access a method within the StateProgressBar's code behind.  
For example, say I have 5 rows of data and I get a message from the server that says that I should stop the progress bar in row 5.

In the code behind, is there a way for me to achieve this? 

...
              <telerik:GridViewDataColumn Header="State">
                    <telerik:GridViewDataColumn.CellTemplate>
                        <DataTemplate>
                            <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
                                <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center"
                                       Text="{Binding state}" FontSize="10"/>
                            <local:StateProgressBar  x:Name="stateProgressBar" TimerInMilliseconds="{Binding displayTimerExpirationTime}"/>
                            </StackPanel>
                        </DataTemplate>
                    </telerik:GridViewDataColumn.CellTemplate>
                </telerik:GridViewDataColumn>
...

Thank you!

FortPointUIGuy

[Ivan Ivanov]

Hello fortpointuiguy,

You may try finding the desired CellTemplate element in the visual tree like this:

(radGridView.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromIndex(4) as GridViewRow).ChildrenOfType<StateProgressBar>().First();

Regards,
Ivan Ivanov
the Telerik team