I have a datagrid thats bound to my database: I want the gender column to be a combobox with its selected value coming from the database. Gender is an enum inside the Member class:
namespace Elysium.model
{
class Member
{
public enum MemberType { Standard, Premium }
public enum Status { Inactive, Active }
public enum Gender { Male, Female }
I have tried to bind it the following way but it gives me an error that Gender is not defined in the namespace or nesting is not allowed when I do <x:Type TypeName="local.Member:Gender" ></x:Type>
:
<ObjectDataProvider x:Key="genderEnum" MethodName="GetValues" ObjectType="{x:Type LocalValueEnumerator}">
<ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters>
<x:Type TypeName="local:Gender" ></x:Type>
</ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters>
</ObjectDataProvider>
ViewMembers.xaml:
<Grid DataContext="{StaticResource memberViewSource}">
<DataGrid x:Name="memberDataGrid" AutoGenerateColumns="False" EnableRowVirtualization="True" ItemsSource="{Binding}" RowDetailsVisibilityMode="VisibleWhenSelected" Width="1100" Height="600">
<DataGrid.Columns>
<DataGridTextColumn x:Name="memberIDColumn" Binding="{Binding MemberID}" Header="Member ID" Width="SizeToHeader"/>
<DataGridTextColumn x:Name="nameColumn" Binding="{Binding Name}" Header="Name" Width="SizeToHeader"/>
<DataGridTextColumn x:Name="fatherNameColumn" Binding="{Binding FatherName}" Header="Father Name" Width="SizeToHeader"/>
<DataGridComboBoxColumn x:Name="genderColumn" SelectedValueBinding="{Binding Value}" Header="Gender" Width="SizeToHeader"/>
ViewMembers.xaml.cs:
public partial class ViewMembers : Page
{
DataTable memberTable = new DataTable();
public ViewMembers()
{
InitializeComponent();
MemberDatabase members = MemberDatabase.getApplicationDatabase();
memberTable = members.getAllMembers();
memberDataGrid.ItemsSource = memberTable.DefaultView;
}
Project Structure:
The ObjectType
should be set to System.Enum
:
<ObjectDataProvider x:Key="genderEnum"
xmlns:sys="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"
MethodName="GetValues" ObjectType="{x:Type sys:Enum}">
<ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters>
<x:Type TypeName="local:Gender" />
</ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters>
</ObjectDataProvider>
Usage:
<DataGridComboBoxColumn x:Name="genderColumn"
ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource genderEnum}}" ... />