Question

I have a class like this to be bind to a datagrid as itemsource:

public class Item
{
  public int Id { get; set; }   
  public string Status { get; set; }
  public Dictionary<string, string> DynamicProperties { get; set; }
}

I want to bind List<Item> to a silverlight datagird and display columns as this

id | Status | DynamicProperties[0] | DynamicProperties[1] | … …

How can I implement this?

Answer 1

With Silverlight 4 and above bindings with string indexers are supported. You simple bind with a path as follows:

{Binding Path=DynamicProperties['propertyIndex']}

For earlier version s of Silverlight, the solution is much more complex, as described on my blog.

If you want to create columns directly, just do this via code-behind. The blog post referenced above shows how to create a DataGrid dynamically.