[Solved] ItemsSource and dynamic type

[Richard Harrigan]

Hi,

The statement below is returned to a WPF RadGridView program that sets the RadGridView.ItemsSource and it work fine.  What I would like to know is if this will also work if called by a windows 8 store app that is using the telerik Grid for xaml control?  If not could you explain how I would bind xml to the control.

return new ObservableCollection<dynamic>(from element in xdoc.Descendants("Row") select new MyDataRow(ToDictionary(element)));

Thanks
Rich

[Ivaylo Gergov]

Hello Richard,

Thank you for using our RadControls for Windows 8.

Yes, in our latest official Q1 2013 SP1 release our RadDataGrid allows binding to dynamic objects. I have attached a sample project with a DataGrid bound to a collection of dynamic objects. Note, that the code for reading the xml file should probably be slightly modified in order to match the WinRT namespaces, approach and etc.

I hope this information is useful.

 

Kind regards,
Ivaylo Gergov
the Telerik team

[Richard Harrigan]

Hi Gergov,

That is great news.  Does that also apply to Windows/RT?

Thanks for the demo.
Rich

[Ivaylo Gergov]

Hi Richard,

Yes, I can confirm that it applies to WinRT.

Let me know if you need further assistance.

 

Greetings,
Ivaylo Gergov
the Telerik team

[Richard Harrigan]

Hi Ivaylo,

I have been experimenting with the Grid example you sent and it looks good.  However, I think I will need a xaml/c# example with more features being demonstrated.  Most of the examples that I have seen are for html5. Specifically the following is what I need to see examples of

in c# code behind.
Create columns with binding to columns data.  Also show other that text, i.e. date, decimal, Int32 etc. stored with grid.
Create filters, groups and sorting
add filtering, grouping and sorting to header (i.e. icon for filter).

I think I can put together a store app pretty quickly if I can get the above example.

Thanks
Rich

[Mikael]

Edit: My mistake. The dynamic stuff works with the latest official version.

[Ivaylo Gergov]

Hi Richard,

You can take a look at our online documentation, where you can find a lot of examples:

• create and bind TextColumns and TemplateColumns.
• create and use FilterDescriptors,SortDescriptors and GroupDescriptors
• For more reference, you can also check our Grid SDK Examples that include the most common scenarios.

In the current version of RadDataGrid, it supports only Grouping UI and Sorting UI, but in our Q2 2013 BETA release(by the end of the month) it will support also Filtering UI out of the box. 

I hope this helps.  Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards,
Ivaylo Gergov
the Telerik team