Sorting on Sub Property

[Albert Shenker]

I have a custom object "Person", which has a property "Address", which in turn has a property "City". I bind a grid to a collection of "Person" and have a column for City. I would like to be able to sort by City, but if I try, I get an error stating that the Column "City" cannot be found. I assume this is because the "Person" object doesn't have a property named "City". I can, of course, create a readonly property named City for the Person, but this would pretty much eliminate the purpose of binding to the custom type (as oposed to a dataview, or something along those lines). Is there any way to acoomplish what I am trying to do?

[Yavor]

Hello Albert,

I tested the control with a similar setup, and it behaved as expected.
Attached to this message, you will find the code which I used for testing.
Let me know if I am leaving something out.

Best wishes,
Yavor
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[Albert Shenker]

Wow, I didn't realize you could use dot (.) notation in the uniquename or datafield properties. Is there some documentation of this?

[Yavor]

Hi Albert,

To see more information on the suggested approach, please refer to the following article.
I hope this helps.

All the best,
Yavor
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[Albert Shenker]

Thanks!

[Albert Shenker]

Thanks!