problem with a complex DataKeyNames value

[Daniel Cuba]

Hi.

I have a RadGrid that I populate with a collection of objects from the class A. This class has one property (propertyB) that is an instance of another class B. And this class B has a property(propertyString) that is an String.

In the design of RadGrid I put DataKeyNames="propertyB.propertyString". 

And I have the following error:

DataBinding: 'Namespace.A' doesn`t contain a property with the name 'propertyB.propertyString'.

I have seen that this schema function in another place. What is missing to me?

Thanks.

Regards

[Veli]

Hi Daniel,

The reason for this error is because propertyB.propertyString is considered as a single property name from the topmost data item. Therefore, RadGrid cannot use this field. It may be able to databind and display the data columns bound to inner properties, but advanced grid operations like sorting and grouping will fail. You also cannot add inner properties as data key values, as they cannot be extracted.

You may need to modify the class A definition to add access to the inner properties as first-level properties of class A. If you cannot modify class A, you can create another wrapper object that will map nested properties to properties of the wrapper object.

Kind regards,
Veli
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[Daniel Cuba]

Veli:

Thank you very much.

Your answer is very clear.  I did a new property in my class A to access to the inner property, like you say...

Regards,

Daniel