Question

I am facing a small problem using silver light . I have a RadGridView, with four columns. My second columns contains text boxes and the third column contains validation errors. If the third column contains validation errors, i want the second column background to turn red. How can i do this. I have tried binding the text box background column to a string with the desired color but that does not work. Really stuck here. Any help with be much appreciated.

Regards,
Mateen

Answer 1

Assuming your binding is otherwise valid, you cannot change colour by binding to a text string of a colour. The background property is of type Brush.

You need to either bind to a Brush instead, or use a brush/colour converter to return a Brush instead of a Color/string etc.

Try these links for converter examples:

http://forums.silverlight.net/p/20392/70263.aspx

http://forums.silverlight.net/p/20392/70263.aspx