Problem binding data to Silverlight DataGrid

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Hi
I am developing a Silverlight web application that uses WCF services to interact with database. I return a arraylist from DAL layer to Xaml.cs but could not bind it to Datagrid.
My Code section is as follows:

if (e.Error != null)
{
    //Error Condition
}
else
{
    dataGrid1.ItemsSource = e.Result;
}

The data is not getting binded if I use datagrid1.ItemSource = e.Result;..
Please give your valuable suggestions in this regard.

Thanks
Naresh.

Posted 3-Mar-11 23:42pm

S.M.Naresh

Updated 4-Mar-11 7:47am

TweakBird

v2

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Abhinav S · Answer 1 · 2011-05-10T19:11:00

Solution 2

What does e.result contain? Is it a collection?

Note: Arraylists are not supported in Silverlight ~~and you need to use an ObservableCollection~~.

Any IEnumerable can be used as an itemssource, not just ObservableCollection.

Posted 10-May-11 19:11pm

Abhinav S

Updated 11-May-11 9:03am

v3

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Abhinav S 12-May-11 0:11am

Good point, Mark. Thanks for the correction.

S.M.Naresh 13-May-11 7:43am

Thanks for your reply.. Can you discuss in detail or give example regarding bind to SL Datagrid.

Manish Ranjan Kumar · Answer 2 · 2011-05-10T17:33:00

You need to Either enable AutoGenerateColumns

dataGrid1.AutoGenerateColumns = true;

OR you can Add column and specify binding

XML

<sdk:DataGrid AutoGenerateColumns="False" Height="185" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="33,66,0,0" Name="dataGrid1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="325">
            <sdk:DataGrid.Columns>
                <sdk:DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding}" CanUserReorder="True" CanUserResize="True" CanUserSort="True" Header="Test" Width="Auto" />
            </sdk:DataGrid.Columns>
        </sdk:DataGrid>