[Solved] How to resolve enum string within Telerik ajax-bound client template?

[Brian Berman]

I am using an Ajax Binding on a Telerik MVC grid and I can't figure out how I would resolve the text version of an enum within the ClientTemplate.

Given:

enum MyEnum { Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri };

public class MyBusinessObject{
     public int Id { get; set; }
     public MyEnum Day { get; set;
}

In my view:

@(Html.Telerik().Grid<MyBusinessObject>()

... columns.Bound(o => o.Day) .ClientTemplate("????")

How can I resolve, for example, "Mon" within the column using the ClientTemplate?

[Petur Subev]

Hello Brian,

The problem with enumerations and Ajax binding is that the JavaScript serializer which serializes the data is serializing only the key of the enum property. (i.e. Sat, Sun etc. will become 0,1 ...) So I suggest you to use a ViewModel instead of binding your Grid to your actual model. This way you can create your Day property to be of type String instead of MyEnum.
Also to get the string representation of an enum property you can use the following approach:

Enum.GetName(typeof(MyEnum), m);

where m is the enum property of your model.
I hope this helps.

Regards,
Petur Subev
the Telerik team