Comments on: Binding a Silverlight DataGrid to dynamic data via IDictionary

By: Colin Eberhardt

Colin Eberhardt — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:38:13 +0000

@Grayson, Glad you managed to fix the problem – and thanks for posting back with your findings. Have fun!

By: grayson mitchell

grayson mitchell — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:19:41 +0000

OK the trick is that you can’t bind to “Forename”, as it is the row object you are binding to… so the code should be like this:
Binding bind = new Binding();
bind.Mode = OneWay;

By: Grayson Mitchell

Grayson Mitchell — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:36:42 +0000

OK, The one thing missing from that link is how to attach the converter. I have put togetther the following code to add column in the code behind, but the converter is still not working… If anyone has any bright ideas what is missing, that would be greatly appresiated.

// add columns in code-behind
DataGridTextColumn textColumn = new DataGridTextColumn();
textColumn.Header = “First Name”;

Binding bind = new Binding(“Forename”);
bind.Converter = new RowIndexConverter() ;
bind.ConverterParameter = “Forename”;

textColumn.Binding = bind;
_dataGrid.Columns.Add(textColumn);

By: grayson mitchell

grayson mitchell — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:25:44 +0000

Fantastic! That was the missing piece that was stopping convert my asp mvc application to Silverlight! I Love you man (cry)

By: Colin Eberhardt

Colin Eberhardt — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:59:02 +0000

Hi … why not just create the columns and their bindings in code-behind? See the following:

http://blogs.msdn.com/scmorris/archive/2008/04/14/defining-silverlight-datagrid-columns-at-runtime.aspx

Regards, Colin E.