Populating a TreeListView With a Generic List

[Rob]

I have an MVVM WPF app with a RadTreeListView that is populated via a Generic List<T> using nested sets from a database. Only the first column of the TreeListView gets populated. What class would be appropriate to replace the generic List so that I can pass multiple columns of data to the TreeListView?

I posted this same question, with code, on the WPF Forum of MSDN and was told that my existing approach with List<T> should work with the TreeListView.  I was also told that since the question involves a third party control, i.e., Telerik, I should move the question to the Telerik forum.

My xaml showing the data binding:

<telerik:RadTreeListView.Columns>
  <telerik:GridViewDataColumn DataMemberBinding="{Binding Tag}"
                              Header="Tag"
                              Width="Auto"/>
  <telerik:GridViewDataColumn DataMemberBinding="{Binding Description}"
                              Header="Description"
                              Width="Auto" />
  <telerik:GridViewDataColumn DataMemberBinding="{Binding ImportedEquipmentType}"
                              Header="Imported Equipment Type"
                              Width="Auto"/>
</telerik:RadTreeListView.Columns>

The "Description" and "Imported Equipment Type" columns do not get populated.

My code for my data class is as follows. My xaml ItemSource is bound to Children:

public class TagItem
{
    public List<TagItem> _children = new List<TagItem>();
    public List<TagItem> Children
    {
        get { return _children; }
    }
    public string EquipmentID { get; set; }
    public string SystemID { get; set; }
    public string Tag { get; set; }
    public string TagNodeText { get; set; }
    public string Tag2 { get; set; }
    public string Description { get; set; }
    public string Description2 { get; set; }
    public string ImportedEquipmentType { get; set; }
    public string ManuallyAdded { get; set; }
    public string ParentID { get; set; }
    public string NodeLeft { get; set; }
    public string NodeRight { get; set; }
    public string Depth { get; set; }
    public string Mpath { get; set; }
}

The constructor for my navigator ViewModel is:

readonly EquipmentListTreeViewModel _equipmentTree;

public EquipmentListNavigator()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    // Get raw family tree data from a database.
    TagItem rootTagItem = Database.GetEquipmentTree();

    // Create UI-friendly wrappers around the
    // raw data objects (i.e. the view-model).
    _equipmentTree = new EquipmentListTreeViewModel(rootTagItem);

    // Let the UI bind to the view-model.
    base.DataContext = _equipmentTree;
}

And the service that fills the list:

public static TagItem GetEquipmentTree()
{
    nTI.Tag = "ASSET REGISTER";
    FillTreeView("", nTI);
    return nTI;
}

private static void FillTreeView(string currKeyRoot, TagItem nTI = null)
{
    DataRows.MyRow row = drows.GetNextRow();
    while (row != null)
    {
        if (NodeStartsWith(row.MPath, currKeyRoot))
        {
            TagItem tnChild = new TagItem();
            tnChild.SystemID = row.SystemID;
            tnChild.EquipmentID = row.EquipmentID;
            tnChild.Description = row.Description;
            tnChild.ParentID = row.ParentID;
            tnChild.Mpath = row.MPath;
            tnChild.Depth = row.Depth;
            tnChild.Tag = row.Tag;
            tnChild.Tag2 = row.Tag2;
            tnChild.Description2 = row.Description2;
            tnChild.ImportedEquipmentType = row.ImportedEquipmentType;
            tnChild.ManuallyAdded = row.ManuallyAdded;
            tnChild.NodeLeft = row.NodeLeft;
            tnChild.NodeRight = row.NodeRight;

            nTI.Children.Add(tnChild);
            FillTreeView(row.MPath, tnChild);
        }
        else
        {
            drows.MovePrev();
            return;
        }
        row = drows.GetNextRow();
    }

All of this works except that the tree is populated only in the "Tag" column. "Description" and "Imported Equipment Type" are blank.

[Rob]

It has been a while since I posted this question.  Has anybody looked at it?

[Rob]

Never mind.  I finally figured it out on my own.