Question

I have an app that receives XML from a server. I want to bind the data to a data grid and it would be grate if the grid auto generated the columns. So far I have tried to this much in my code.

XAML page:

<data:DataGrid x:Name='Status' ItemsSource='{Binding}' AutoGenerateColumns='True'> </data:DataGrid> 

Code behind for the page:

void Status_OpenReadCompleted(object sender, OpenReadCompletedEventArgs e) {     XElement recordSet = XElement.Load(e.Result);     CamerasStatusTabDataGrid.ItemsSource = recordSet.Elements('Status'); } 

XML from the server:

<StatusReport>     <Status Description='Spilled Coffe on Server' Date='2/5/2009' />     <Status Description='Mice in Copier' Date='4/3/2008' />     <Status Description='Helped User Find Any Key' Date='6/2/2008' /> </StatusReport> 

What I am looking to do is to have the status be a row in the grid with ‘Description’ and ‘Date’ being columns.

Answer 1

A good way to do this is using Linq to Xml, the following is a full example:

Page.xaml:

<UserControl x:Class='SilverlightApplication1.Page'     xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation'      xmlns:x='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml'     xmlns:data='clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Data'     Width='400' Height='300'     Loaded='Page_Loaded'>      <Grid x:Name='LayoutRoot' Background='White'>         <data:DataGrid x:Name='DataGrid1' />     </Grid> </UserControl> 

Page.xaml.cs:

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Windows; using System.Windows.Controls; using System.Xml.Linq;  namespace SilverlightApplication1 {     public partial class Page : UserControl     {         public Page()         {             InitializeComponent();         }          private void Page_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)         {             DataGrid1.ItemsSource = GetStatusReport();         }          public List<Status> GetStatusReport()         {             List<Status> statusReport = new List<Status>();              // Get your Xml using XElement.Load(e.Result);             XElement doc = XElement.Load(@'Data/StatusReport.xml');              statusReport = (from el in doc.Elements()                             select GetStatus(el)).ToList();              return statusReport;         }          private Status GetStatus(XElement el)         {             Status s = new Status();             s.Description = el.Attribute('Description').Value;             s.Date = DateTime.Parse(el.Attribute('Date').Value);             return s;         }     } } 

Make sure you add a reference to the System.Xml.Linq assembly. This produces the output you were looking for with a Status for every row in the grid with ‘Description’ and ‘Date’ as columns.

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