Hi,
I've been trying to get this to work for several days now unsuccessfully. Here is my scenario, I have a webservice that returns a listof objects that have about 50 fields. What I am trying to do is initially display only several of the fields, and give the user the ability to expand a child grid that will then bind to the same object that the parent is bound to and display all fifty fields. All of the examples I am finding seem to do all of the binding at once, and not "on deman" I've noticed performance problems when I do this which is why I want to take this approach. I essentially always want there to be a button to expand the grid, but do not want to populate the child until that button is clicked. Can someone lead me in the right direction? I'm really just looking for a link to something that does this already, so far I've found the hierarchical grids in silverlight slightly confusing.
Thanks
Bill
I've been trying to get this to work for several days now unsuccessfully. Here is my scenario, I have a webservice that returns a listof objects that have about 50 fields. What I am trying to do is initially display only several of the fields, and give the user the ability to expand a child grid that will then bind to the same object that the parent is bound to and display all fifty fields. All of the examples I am finding seem to do all of the binding at once, and not "on deman" I've noticed performance problems when I do this which is why I want to take this approach. I essentially always want there to be a button to expand the grid, but do not want to populate the child until that button is clicked. Can someone lead me in the right direction? I'm really just looking for a link to something that does this already, so far I've found the hierarchical grids in silverlight slightly confusing.
Thanks
Bill
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Hi Bill,
Vlad
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You have various options to achieve hierarchy on demand. Since the grid itself will touch child data on demand you can use pure MVVM approach to load your hierarchical data similar to my blog post or you can simply declare your child grid using HierarchyChildTemplate, catch Loaded event, retrieve your child data based on ParentRow.DataContext (your parent data item) and bind the child grid.
You can check this blog post as well to know more how to do the same with row-details.
Vlad
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