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Specify path to field's display text
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I am new to XamDataGrid, so this may be an easy question.

One of the fields in my data-grid corresponds to a property which is a custom business object.  I want to use this business object's "Description" property (of type String) as the text that gets displayed in the data-grid.  So how do I do that?  Please show the XAML.

As a temporary workaround, I overrode the business object's ToString() method, but this is not ideal.

 

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    Hi,
    You can achieve this with UnboundField in the xamDataGrid control.
    Let's have a business object - for example an object of type Person and the Person has a complex memeber FullName of type Name with two fields FirstName and LastName. You can display the FirstName and LastName in XAML in the following way:

    <ig:XamDataGrid x:Name="igDataGrid" >
        <ig:XamDataGrid.FieldLayoutSettings>
            <ig:FieldLayoutSettings AutoGenerateFields="False" />
        </ig:XamDataGrid.FieldLayoutSettings>
        <ig:XamDataGrid.FieldLayouts>
            <ig:FieldLayout>
                <ig:UnboundField Name="FirstName" Label="First Name" BindingPath="FullName.FirstName" />
                <ig:UnboundField Name="LastName" Label="Last Name" BindingPath="FullName.LastName" />
            </ig:FieldLayout>
     </ig:XamDataGrid.FieldLayouts>
    </ig:XamDataGrid>

    You can read more detailed description on this topic here:

    http://help.infragistics.com/NetAdvantage/WPF/2010.3/CLR4.0/?page=xamDataPresenter_Displaying_a_Complex_Property_XAML.html

    Best Regards