Binding DataGridComboBoxColumn to a one to many entity framework relation
- by Cristian
I have two tables in the model, one table contains entries related to the other table in a one to many relations, for example:
Table User
ID
Name
Table Comments
ID
UserID
Title
Text
I want to show a datagrid in a WPF window with two columns, one text column with the User name and another column with a combobox showing all the comments made by the user.
The datagrid definition is like this:
<DataGrid AutoGenerateColumns="False" [layout options...] Name="dataGrid1" ItemsSource="{Binding}">
<DataGrid.Columns>
<DataGridTextColumn Header="Name" Binding="{Binding Path=Name}"/>
<DataGridComboBoxColumn Header="Comments"
SelectedValueBinding="{Binding Path=UserID}"
SelectedValuePath="ID"
DisplayMemberPath="Title"
ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Comments}"
/>
</DataGrid.Columns>
</DataGrid>
in the code I assign the DataContext like this:
dataGrid1.DataContext = entities.Users;
The entity User has a property named Comments that leads to all the comments made by the user. The queries are returning data and the user names are shown but the combobox is not being filled.
May be the approach is totally wrong or I'm just missing a very simple point here, I'm opened to learn better methods to do this.
Thanks
