XAML-SDK Reminders example little bug

[Richard]

For what it worth, playing around with the reminders example I found that it wouldn't open the appointment for edition when the "Open Item"  button is clicked.

I checked the git repository to see if this is already addressed, but the last update to this files is about 4 years old, so here is the trick:

 

It turns out that at the time where the scheduleview reference is passed to the ReminderViewModel constructor (via the ViewModel class constructor), it is null.

So I added a ScheduleView property to ViewModel as a fachade for the reminder's view model property:

        public RadScheduleView ScheduleView
        {
            get { return reminderViewModel.ScheduleView; }
            set { reminderViewModel.ScheduleView = value; }
        }

and set it again once the IntializeComponent() method is called in the Example window's constructor:

        public Example()
        {
            viewModel = new ViewModel(this.scheduleView);
            this.DataContext = viewModel;
            InitializeComponent();
            viewModel.ScheduleView = this.scheduleView;
        }

And presto! Now it works as expected.

 

Best regards.

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello Richard,

Thank you for pointing this issue. Based on your feedback be fixed it and the fix will be live on GitHub pretty soon. I also updated your Telerik points as a small gratitude for reporting this. 

Just for your information, the 'scheduleView' was null because it is get before the InitializeComponent() method is called. To resolve this you can just move the ViewModel creating just after InitializeComponent().

public Example()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    viewModel = new ViewModel(this.scheduleView);
    this.DataContext = viewModel;
}

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
Progress Telerik

[Richard]

Thanks martin.

I am obviously influenced by the fact that usually I do some stuff *before* setting the view model...  Usually, I DO need the view model before initializing components because they already carry some significant info to show...

Maybe that is a call to review desing style... hmmm...

Best regards.