Natalia Penkova
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Natalia Penkova
asked on 22 Feb 2010, 01:26 AM
Hi All!
In RadGridView documentation (Loading Data from RIA Services) NorthwindDataSource class created with public property Customers, wich is of ObservableCollection type. Why do we need to do extra class with property, if in DomainDataContext all loaded entities are IEnumerable with INotifyCollectionChanged implementation (according to RIA Services documentation)?
I have tried to bind directly to LoadOperation.Entities. All works fine except RadGridView.BeginInsert() - new line does not appear (by the way DataForm works the same way). Does it mean that Ria Services doсs have mistake (look at LoadOperation.Entities property xml comments), or some bug in RadGridView control?
Thanks!
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Hello Natalia Penkova,
Generally RadGridView cannot add items automatically if underlying data source is IEnumerable.
RadGridView adds items via AddNew() method of the IList<T> interface, so your data source should implement IList<T> if you want to add items automatically. Another requirement is that T (from IList<T>) must have a default (parameterless) constructor.
In order to add items with different scenarios you have to handle RadGridView.AddingNewDataItem event and provide new instance to the NewObject parameter.
Let me know if this does not help.
Best wishes,
Nedyalko Nikolov
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Generally RadGridView cannot add items automatically if underlying data source is IEnumerable.
RadGridView adds items via AddNew() method of the IList<T> interface, so your data source should implement IList<T> if you want to add items automatically. Another requirement is that T (from IList<T>) must have a default (parameterless) constructor.
In order to add items with different scenarios you have to handle RadGridView.AddingNewDataItem event and provide new instance to the NewObject parameter.
Let me know if this does not help.
Best wishes,
Nedyalko Nikolov
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Terry
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answered on 25 Mar 2010, 10:58 PM
So does this mean that we cannot bind a RadGridView to collections of entities we get from RIA services if we want to allow the user to add rows? If so, would we need to convert the entity collection from RIA to an IList<>, keep track of the changes through events, and then do the updates & inserts manually with the RIA CRUD operations for each changed or inserted row?
Is there a code example for this?
I'm using SL4 RC as well as Teleriks SL4 RC. And indeed, Insert and BeginInsert() don't work when I'm bound to a RIA tab le entity collection.
Thanks,
Terry
Is there a code example for this?
I'm using SL4 RC as well as Teleriks SL4 RC. And indeed, Insert and BeginInsert() don't work when I'm bound to a RIA tab le entity collection.
Thanks,
Terry
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Hi Terry,
Could you please take a look at this forum post and let me know if there is something unclear?
Greetings,
Nedyalko Nikolov
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Could you please take a look at this forum post and let me know if there is something unclear?
Greetings,
Nedyalko Nikolov
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