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.

Answer 1

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

//use the dataKeyValue to fetch the correct Employee object

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Just databind the collection directly:

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