Retrieving RadTreeViewItem using code

[Indu VS]

I want to retrieve RadTreeViewItems from a RadTreeView. i tried the below code in a method,but it is not working.
here 'controlsTree' is the radtreeview and 'item' is the datacontext of that node.

RadTreeViewItem itemss = controlsTree.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromIndex(1) as RadTreeViewItem;
or
RadTreeViewItem itemss = controlsTree.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(item) as RadTreeViewItem;

Is there any other method to do this?

[Tihomir Petkov]

Hello Indu,

The methods you are using would work only for the immediate children of the treeview. So, if you try to get a treeview item that is not at the top-most level of items using the code you provided in your post,
you will not be able to get it because the ItemContainerGenerator is hierarchly aware. Meaning that the TreeView.ItemContainerGenerator will only know direct children of the TreeView. and the TreeViewItem.ItemContainerGenerator will only knows it's own direct children.
So essentially a TreeView has as many ItemContainerGenerators as it has TreeViewItems+1. And again, each of these ItemContainerGenerators only knows about the children of the instance it belongs to. So, to be able to get the item you need, you should use the ItemContainerGenerator of the item's parent - this is either the TreeVIew itself if the item is at the root level, or another treeview item.

you may find these two links helpful:
http://silverlight.net/forums/t/65277.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.itemcontainergenerator.aspx

Let me know if you have more questions.

Regards,
Tihomir Petkov
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[StrandedPirate]

Being new to silverlight and this wacked API I had the same issue. I finally found the RadTreeView.ContainerFromItemRecursive() method that allows you to do this. Here is some sample code for reference where I am recursively iterating over the Items collection to find one that matches a string and using the ContainerFromItemRecursive method to find the UI element that represents the item. This is for Q1 2010 version.

 

 

private void Button_Click(object sender, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs e)

 

{

    FindItem(FolderTreeView.Items);

}

 

 

private void FindItem(ItemCollection collection)

 

{

 

 

foreach (tbl_Path path in collection)

 

{

 

 

RadTreeViewItem item = FolderTreeView.ContainerFromItemRecursive(path) as RadTreeViewItem;

 

 

 

if (path.Name().ToLowerInvariant().StartsWith(FindTextbox.Text.ToLowerInvariant()))

 

{

item.IsSelected =

 

true;

 

 

 

break;

 

}

 

 

else if (item.HasItems)

 

{

FindItem(item.Items);

}

}

}

[Bobi]

Hi Joey,

Thank you for the feedback. You can find some more help  here:
http://www.telerik.com/help/silverlight/radtreeview-retrieving-checked-items.html

Please let us know if you have any other questions or need some more help.

Best wishes,
Bobi
the Telerik team

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