[Solved] "]" character in a column name, breaks filter

[Gary C]

Hello,

My test app, is a WinForm application:

I have a column in a DataTable named "my]field". I also have a RadGridView with the "EnableFiltering" property set to "True". I assign my DataTable to the DataSource of the RadGridView. At runtime, when I attempt to set a filter on this column, I get this error: "Syntax error: Missing operand after 'field' operator."

Any ideas how I can have a "]" character in a column name and the filtering still works?

Thanks,
-Gary

[Julian Benkov]

Hello Gary Campbell,

RadGridView uses a filtering model and expressions from the DataView filtering and the ']' symbol is a special symbol in the string expressions. For this reason you can not use this special character in column names, because the composed filter expression will be invalid.

We will continue to investigate and research the problem in the future and we may even try to implement a mechanism which will work around  this inconvenience.

 
Kind regards,
Julian Benkov
the Telerik team

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