Nested Properties needs Dictionary<> support

[Shawn]

I would hope that a Xamarin.Forms component would support all forms of data binding that Xamarin.Forms itself supports.  I do not think that is the case.  Most mature data binding systems, like Xamarin.Forms, support binding to items within a Dictionary.  So if I have a Dictionary<string,double> called Data within my row datamodel, I should be able to create a column with a property name of "Data[Oil]" which should grab the double out of the Data Dictionary with key of "Oil".  I do not think this is supported as I get blank cells when I try it.

 

Does this actually work and I am missing something?

[Yana]

Hello Shawn,

I am afraid the described scenario with a Dictionary binding is not supported with the built-in DataGrid columns. In short, RadDataGrid could not visualize properties of type IEnumarable such as Dictionary, List, and other. So, in the concrete case, you would need to usе DataGridTemplateColumn and handle the binding inside the CellContentTemplate.  Here is a quick example:

<telerikDataGrid:DataGridTemplateColumn>
    <telerikDataGrid:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellContentTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <Label Text="{Binding Data[Oil]}"/>
        </DataTemplate>
    </telerikDataGrid:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellContentTemplate>
</telerikDataGrid:DataGridTemplateColumn>

I hope such an approach would be acceptable for you.

Regards,
Yana
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