Problem with DropDown when closing Tabs

[Ariel Gonzalez]

Hi

I use in my application a RadTabControl that uses a Close button in the TabItem template. The problem is that when I use the DropDown it successfully shows the template that I used for the TabItems in the DropDown but If I click the close button from the dropdown the tab is closed and deleted from the RadTabControl but the DropDown does not get refreshes and this can lead to problem since if a click again in the close button of that tab from the dropdown I will get an error obviously because that Tab doesn't exists anymore.

I am using the Q2 2010 beta

Any solutions for that? There is a workaround for that?

Thanks,

Ariel

[Tina Stancheva]

Hi Ariel,

Thank you for this report. We will investigate it further.

For now I can suggest you to close the DropDownMenu whenever the close button is clicked through the MenuItem. For example: DropDownMenu.IsOpen = false;

Give this approach a try and let me know if it works for you.

Sincerely yours,
Tina Stancheva
the Telerik team

[Ariel Gonzalez]

Hi Tina

I am using MVVM so that solution is not ideal but for now I did it as a work around. Just set the TabControl.IsDropDownOpen  to false every time a tab closed and worked. The perfect solution is that somehow you hook up an event that went tabitems collection is changed you refresh the dropdown items collection that seems not to be the same when it should.

Thanks,

Ariel

[Kiril Stanoev]

Hello Ariel Gonzalez,

I've prepared a small project that shows you how to delete items from the DropDownMenu without closing it. Have a look at it and let me know how it works for you.

On a side note, I'd like to inform you that we've just released an online tool that allows you to reduce the size of your Silverilght applications. For more information, please visit http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/posts/10-06-10/telerik_assembly_minifier.aspx

Greetings,
Kiril Stanoev
the Telerik team

[Ariel Gonzalez]

Hi Kiril

That worked better. Still is not the preferred solution since I used MVVM then I have to be notifying the View from the ViewModel every time the tab has been closed. I do that using the IView approach.  I still would like to see that done behind scene in the control internal code so I don't have to worry about that, probably some sort of synch  between ItemSource in tab control and ItemSource in the DropDownMenu.

Thanks

Ariel

[Kiril Stanoev]

Hi Ariel,

I agree that this scenario should be supported by RadTabControl out of the box. I've added your request in out public issue tracking system under the name "TabControl: When a tab is removed through a Close button in the DropDownMenu, the menu is not updated" and it will be available for tracking and voting tomorrow the latest. We will be working on this feature during our next quarter.

Regards,
Kiril Stanoev
the Telerik team