Is it possible to easily bind the grid to an hierarchical object Graph

[Martin]

Let's say I have the following classes:

Public Class AddressBook
      Public Property OwnerName As String


    Public Property Friends As IList(Of Contact)

    Public Property Family As IList(Of Contact)

    Public Property Colleagues As IList(Of Contact)

 

End Class

 

Public Class Contact

    Public Property Address As Address

    Public Property Name As String

    Public Property Phone As String

    Public Property DateOfBirth As Date

    Public ReadOnly Property Age As Integer

        Get

            Return Math.Floor((Date.Now - DateOfBirth).Days / 365)

        End Get

    End Property

End Class

 

Public Class Address

    Public Property StreetNumber As Integer

    Public Property StreetName As String

    Public Property ZipCode As String

End Class

Is it possible to Databind the grid to the AdressBook and have the detail tables assigned automatically to properties like Friends, Family and Colleagues ? And then Adress to contact ?

Is it doable declaratively from the aspx file ?

[Vasil]

Hi Martin,

It is possible to do it with a bit of code. Please check this blog post: http://blogs.telerik.com/VladimirEnchev/Posts/08-08-11/How_To_RadGrid_hierarchy_from_objects_hierarchy.aspx

Regards,
Vasil
the Telerik team

[Martin]

Thanks, It worked great !!!