How to bind nested generic list to radGridView?

[hosein]

Hello

I' going to Load Data from a nested generic list and Bind it to a radGridView. But I could not do that

this is my list:

List<List<string>> Mylist = new List<List<string>>();

and I add items into the list like below:

Mylist.Add(new List<string> { str1, str2, str3 });

at the end I set the gridview dataSource like this:

DGV1.DataSource = Mylist;

But it does not show the data from the list. the grid has 2 columns: Capacity, Count

Does anyone knows How I can Bind Mylist to the grid?

thanks

[Julian Benkov]

Hello hosein,

You can not bind primitive types such as string array directly to RadGridView control. For you scenario you can use unbound mode of grid to get/set string values:

Random r = new Random();
this.radGridView1.ColumnCount = 10;
this.radGridView1.RowCount = 30;

//set values
using (this.radGridView1.DeferRefresh())
{
    for (int i = 0; i < this.radGridView1.RowCount; i++)
    {
        for (int j = 0; j < this.radGridView1.ColumnCount; j++)
        {
            this.radGridView1.Rows[i].Cells[j].Value = r.Next(500).ToString();
        }
    }
}

//get values
for (int i = 0; i < this.radGridView1.RowCount; i++)
{
    for (int j = 0; j < this.radGridView1.ColumnCount; j++)
    {
        string myObj = this.radGridView1.Rows[i].Cells[j].Value.ToString();
    }
}

I hope this information is useful. Let me know if you need further assistance.

Regards,
Julian Benkov
the Telerik team

[hosein]

Hello
I have read the code from CustomObject Binding in Demo and changed it a little.
Now it Works fine for me
Thanks a lot

[Petar]

I am interested in how you are able to bind to items in the second list. List<List<object>>

[Julian Benkov]

Hi Petar,

Thank you for writing us.

For this type of binding you can use the sub-property binding functionality. For more information, please refer to our online documentation.

I hope this information is useful. Let me know if you need further assistance.

Kind regards,
Julian Benkov
the Telerik team