How to fix breaking change to ISortDescriptor?

[Dan Kinchen]

Hello,

I suppose this isn't specific to the RadGridView, but the breaking change is the same so I'll ask here.  I'm using QueryableCollectionView to support dynamic sorting in a RadGridView.  The QueryableCollectionView has a SortDescriptors collection that used to return a collection of type SortDescriptor.  Now it returns a collection of type ISortDescriptor.  The problem?  ISortDescritpor doesn't have a definition for SortMember on it.  The ListSortDirection is still there, but now you can't tell which column it's sorting on.

Is this a huge oversight or is there some simple code change I need to make to fix this?

[Yavor Georgiev]

Hello Dan Kinchen,

 As detailed here, RadGridView now generates ColumnSortDescriptor objects when sorting is performed in the UI. You need to check if the ISortDescriptor is a ColumnSortDescriptor. If so, you can directly query its Column property to see which column has been sorted.

 There are now three types of sort descriptors - the existing SortDescriptor, the new ColumnSortDescriptor, as well as the lambda-backed SortDescriptor<TElement, TKey>. All are supported by the RadGridView's data engine. You can even create your own SortDescriptor by implementing ISortDescriptor so that you have more control over sorting.

All the best,
Yavor Georgiev
the Telerik team

[Dan Kinchen]

Ok, that fixes that issue.  However, another behavior has changed.   The CollectionChanged event on the Telerik.Windows.Data.QueryableCollectionView used to fire when the user paged via a bound RadDataPager.  In the current version it does not.  I tried listening to the PageChanged event and that doesn't fire either.  Thus pagination on all of my grids are currently broken.  Any suggestions?

[Dan Kinchen]

Any answer on this?  If not I'm going to have to back-rev to a previous version of the Telerik controls until there's a fix/workaround to this issue.

[Yavor Georgiev]

Hi Dan Kinchen,

 This is very strange and we are not aware of such a problem. Could you please open a separate support ticket for the paging issue and attach an application that reproduces the problem there?

Sincerely yours,
Yavor Georgiev
the Telerik team

[Kathleen]

When will the documentation be updated to reflect the breaking changes?

http://www.telerik.com/help/silverlight/gridview-multiple-column-sorting.html

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hi Kathleen,

The online documentation will be updated next week.

Sincerely yours,
Veselin Vasilev
the Telerik team