Why is grid's CollectionView private?

[Dan]

I have a business requirement to render on a map control the same data that is displayed in a GridView control.  For example, if the grid is loaded with all of the companies locations in North America, display those locations on the map.  That part is simple.  Where I have a problem is if the user filters the grid to show only US locations, they want the map to show only those locations. 

I can see that the RadGridView.Items class has a private property of CollectionView that contains the collection of the filtered items. if this collectionview were a read-only property I could just use if for my map object.

I would think that reusing the filtered data from a grid for other purposes would not be an entirely rare requirement.

Is there another way to do this that I am missing?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

[Milan]

Hi Dan,

The state of the grid is reflected in its Items property - if you filter the grid only the items that pass the filters will be listed in Items. Have you tried using this collection as a source for the map?

All the best,
Milan
the Telerik team

[Dan]

Hi Milan, the Items property is what I needed.  Thanks for the help.