Referencing nested control

Question

I have two gridviews - one nested in the other - and I am trying to set the datasource of the child grid programmaticly, but am not sure how to reference it.

<telerik:RadGrid ID="RadGridResults" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="true" OnNeedDataSource="RadGridResults_NeedDataSource">
    <MasterTableView>
        <NestedViewTemplate>
            <telerik:RadGrid ID="RadGridDetails" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="true">
            </telerik:RadGrid>
        </NestedViewTemplate>
    </MasterTableView>
</telerik:RadGrid>

I have tried this:

RadGrid radGridDetails = RadGridResults.FindControl("RadGridDetails") as RadGrid;
radGridDetails.DataSource = myList.ToList();

But this returns a NullReferenceException.

Can someone please show how I can accomplish this?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 27 '14 at 19:18

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Just databind the collection directly:

<telerik:RadGrid ID="RadGridDetails" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="true"
    DataSource='<%# Eval("myList") %>'>
</telerik:RadGrid>

answered Jan 27 '14 at 19:18

Servy

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 03 '14 at 16:58

You can find any control inside a NestedViewTemplate by getting the grid's GridNestedViewItem. Here is how you reference the child grid programmatically:

var radGridDetails = 
    ((RadGridResults.MasterTableView.Items[0].ChildItem as GridNestedViewItem)
    .FindControl("RadGridDetails") as RadGrid);

I would still databind the grid as @Servy demonstrated, but for referencing the grid like you asked, the above code should work.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 28 '16 at 11:31

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object dataKeyValue = ((source as RadGrid).NamingContainer as DataItem).GetDataKeyValue("ID");

//use the dataKeyValue to fetch the correct Employee object

edited Jan 28 '16 at 11:31

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answered Jan 28 '16 at 11:14

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