Report Parameter DisplayMember/ValueMember

[Aaron Abdis]

Hello all, I'm writing my very first Telerik report. I am trying to hook up one of the parameters to a "Business Object" datasource.
My datasource is defined as:

Namespace DataObjects
    Public Class DropDowns
        Public Shared ReadOnly Property Intervals() As List(Of ListItem)
            Get
                Dim lic = New ListItemCollection()

                lic.Add(New ListItem("Raw", "0"))
                lic.Add(New ListItem("15 Minutes", "0.25"))
                lic.Add(New ListItem("30 Minutes", "0.5"))
                lic.Add(New ListItem("1 Hour", "1"))
                lic.Add(New ListItem("6 Hours", "6"))
                lic.Add(New ListItem("12 Hours", "12"))
                lic.Add(New ListItem("1 Day", "24"))

                Return (From li As ListItem In lic Select li).ToList
            End Get
        End Property
    End Class
End Namespace

My report parameter is defined as (from the report codebehind):

        reportParameter1.Name = "DeviceId"
        reportParameter1.Type = Telerik.Reporting.ReportParameterType.[Integer]
        reportParameter1.UI.AllowBlank = False
        reportParameter1.UI.AvailableValues.DataMember = "Intervals"
        reportParameter1.UI.AvailableValues.DataSource = GetType(DataObjects.DropDowns)
        reportParameter1.UI.AvailableValues.DisplayMember = "Fields.Text"
        reportParameter1.UI.AvailableValues.ValueMember = "Fields.Value"
        reportParameter1.UI.Visible = True
        Me.ReportParameters.Add(reportParameter1)

When i run the report in the browser, in the area where the report would normally render, it tells me: "The expression contains object 'Fields.Value' that is not defined in the current context." I have tried using Value, Fields.Value, Item.Value, ... and just can't figure out what to put for the DisplayMember and ValueMember to get them to pull the Text and Value properties of the ListItem objects respectively. I even tried leaving them blank, but then it tells me: "Parameter 'DeviceId' has defined AvailableValues, but no ValueMember is specified. Use 'Item' if binding to Array."

Can someone tell me what to put for the DisplayMember and ValueMember properties???
Thanks in advance! 

[Massimiliano Bassili]

Text and Value are incredibly poor choice for naming properties in your own custom class and this way you may cause collision with already defined properties in various namespaces.
I've bound my report parameters through the Report Parameters UI (http://www.telerik.com/help/reporting/designing-reports-parameters.html) and looking at the code it has reportParameter1.UI.AvailableValues.ValueMember = "MyCategory" set as ValueMember, so you can ditch the =Fields. syntax.
It would seem to me that the painless way to proceed would be to create a default constructor for your business object so that you can use the designer UI for binding the parameters.

My 2 cents ..

[Aaron Abdis]

Well, Text and Value are not my choice... if you look at the BO, it is returning a List(Of ListItem).
ListItem is simply the built-in ListItem class from the framework, and Text and Value are the properties which it exposes.