Filtering GridViewComboBoxColumn in RadGridView for WPF
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The GridViewComboBox column is used to display lookup data in user friendly manner. For our demo we bind RadGridView for WPF to a collection of custom Location objects.
As you may notice – each location has a selectable Country field. Here is the underlying ‘data model’:
public class Location { public int CountryID { get; set; } public string CityName { get; set; } } public class Country { public int ID { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } }
The location object contains the integer CountryID. Each CountryID corresponds to a certain country and with the help of GridViewComboBoxColumn we see some human readable country names instead of the underlying numeric IDs.
Now The Problem:
Unfortunately the filter control does not know that our Country IDs are associated with Country objects, so it displays the ...
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