How do you bind an entity collection or an observable collection of an entity  to the EntityDetailDescription ?

how do you bind the EntityDetailDescription to a DataGridCollectionView or to the ItemsSource property of a WPF DataGrid 4.2?

Hi Mark, 

Please refer to the documentation concerning EntityDetailDescription for an example on how to provide details for a Data item when using entity framework: 

http://doc.xceedsoft.com/products/XceedWpfDataGrid/DataGridDetailDescription_Class.html 

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Best Regards,

Michel Dahdah
Technical Support
Xceed Software inc.

this doesn't help.  this does not show how to hook up an entity to the grid. the collectionview complains this is not an ienumerable collection

Hi Mark,

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To clarify, you cannot bind a collection directly to the EntityDetailDescription, and you cannot bind an EntityDetailDescription to the ItemsSource of a DataGridControl.

The proper order would be:
1) create a DataGridCollectionView that has your data source (collection, DataTable, etc.) as it's Source.
2) you can manually specify master-detail relationships by adding EntityDetailDescriptions to the DataGridCollectionView.DetailDescriptions collection.
3) you can then set the DataGridCollectionView to be the ItemsSource of your DataGridControl.

 

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Diane Lafontaine
Technical Support
Xceed Software Inc.