Data Binding Support Overview

Data binding allows you to establish a link between the UI and the underlying business logic and keep them synchronized. It means that when a value is changed in the business layer, that change is automatically populated to the UI and vice versa. Of course, in order to work, you have to implement the proper notification or to use objects that have already implemented it.

Binding to RadScheduleView involves the following properties:

AppointmentsSource
ResourceTypesSource
CategoriesSource
TimeMarkersSource
GroupDescriptionsSource

AppointmentsSource

AppointmentsSource - gets or sets the data source (IEnumerable) used to generate the Appointments in the RadScheduleView control. It can be bound to data from a variety of data sources in the form of common language runtime (CLR) objects and XML.

Note that the data source passed to the property AppointmentsSource should contain only objects that implement the IAppointment interface.

Example 1: Defining the AppointmentsSource collection in the view model

public class MyViewModel : ViewModelBase 
{ 
    private ObservableCollection<Appointment> appointments; 
    public ObservableCollection<Appointment> Appointments 
    { 
        get 
        { 
            if (this.appointments == null) 
            { 
                this.appointments = this.CreateAppointments(); 
            } 
            return this.appointments; 
        } 
    } 
 
    private ObservableCollection<Appointment> CreateAppointments() 
    { 
        var apps = new ObservableCollection<Appointment>(); 
 
        var app1 = new Appointment 
        { 
            Subject = "Front-End Meeting", 
            Start = DateTime.Today.AddHours(9), 
            End = DateTime.Today.AddHours(10) 
        }; 
        apps.Add(app1); 
 
        var app2 = new Appointment 
        { 
            Subject = "Planning Meeting", 
            Start = DateTime.Today.AddHours(11), 
            End = DateTime.Today.AddHours(12) 
        }; 
        apps.Add(app2); 
 
        return apps; 
    } 
}

Example 2: Binding the AppointmentsSource

XAML

   <telerik:RadScheduleView x:Name="scheduleView" 
            DataContext="{StaticResource MyViewModel}" 
            AppointmentsSource="{Binding Appointments}"> 
            <telerik:RadScheduleView.ViewDefinitions> 
                <telerik:WeekViewDefinition/> 
                <telerik:DayViewDefinition /> 
            </telerik:RadScheduleView.ViewDefinitions> 
        </telerik:RadScheduleView>

ResourceTypesSource

ResourceTypesSource - gets or sets the data source (IEnumerable) used to generate the ResourceTypes of the RadScheduleView control. It can be bound to data from a variety of data sources in the form of common language runtime (CLR) objects and XML.

Note that the data source passed to the property ResourceTypesSource should contain only objects of type ResourceType.

Example 3: Defining the ResourceTypesSource collection in the view model

private ObservableCollection<ResourceType> resourceTypesSource; 
    public ObservableCollection<ResourceType> ResourceTypesSource 
    { 
        get 
        { 
            if (this.resourceTypesSource == null) 
            { 
                this.resourceTypesSource = new ObservableCollection<ResourceType>(this.CreateResources()); 
            } 
 
            return this.resourceTypesSource; 
        } 
    } 
 
    private List<ResourceType> CreateResources() 
    { 
        IEnumerable<IResource> resourcesProgrammes; 
        IEnumerable<IResource> resourcesTVs; 
        List<ResourceType> resourceTypes; 
 
        resourcesProgrammes = new List<IResource> 
        { 
            new Resource("Movies", "Programme"), 
            new Resource("Sports", "Programme"), 
            new Resource("Shows", "Programme"), 
            new Resource("Kids", "Programme"), 
        }; 
 
        resourcesTVs = new List<IResource> 
        { 
            new Resource("LiveCastNews", "TV"), 
            new Resource("Voozy", "TV"), 
            new Resource("Sportix", "TV"), 
        }; 
        resourceTypes = new List<ResourceType>(); 
 
        ResourceType resourceTypeProgramme = new ResourceType("Programme"); 
        resourceTypeProgramme.Resources.AddRange(resourcesProgrammes); 
        ResourceType resourceTypeTV = new ResourceType("TV"); 
        resourceTypeTV.Resources.AddRange(resourcesTVs); 
 
        resourceTypes.Add(resourceTypeProgramme); 
        resourceTypes.Add(resourceTypeTV); 
 
        return resourceTypes; 
    }

Example 4: Binding the ResourceTypesSource

XAML

<telerik:RadScheduleView x:Name="scheduleView" 
            DataContext="{StaticResource MyViewModel}" 
            ResourceTypesSource="{Binding ResourceTypesSource}" 
            AppointmentsSource="{Binding Appointments}"> 
            <telerik:RadScheduleView.ViewDefinitions> 
                <telerik:WeekViewDefinition/> 
                <telerik:DayViewDefinition /> 
            </telerik:RadScheduleView.ViewDefinitions> 
        </telerik:RadScheduleView>

CategoriesSource

CategoriesSource - gets or sets the data source (IEnumerable) used to generate the Categories in the RadScheduleView control. It can be bound to data from a variety of data sources in the form of common language runtime (CLR) objects and XML.

Note that the data source passed to the property CategoriesSource should contain only objects of type Category.

Example 5: Defining the Categories collection in the view model

private ObservableCollection<Category> categories; 
        public ObservableCollection<Category> Categories 
        { 
            get 
            { 
                if (this.categories == null) 
                { 
                    this.categories = this.CreateCategories(); 
                } 
 
                return this.categories; 
            } 
        } 
 
        private ObservableCollection<Category> CreateCategories() 
        { 
            ObservableCollection<Category> categories = new ObservableCollection<Category>() { 
            new Category( "Red Category", new SolidColorBrush( Colors.Red ) ), 
            new Category( "Orange Category", new SolidColorBrush( Colors.Orange ) ), 
            new Category( "Green Category", new SolidColorBrush( Colors.Green ) )}; 
 
            return categories; 
        }

Example 6: Binding the CategoriesSource

XAML

<telerik:RadScheduleView x:Name="scheduleView" 
            DataContext="{StaticResource MyViewModel}" 
            CategoriesSource="{Binding Categories}" 
            AppointmentsSource="{Binding Appointments}"> 
            <telerik:RadScheduleView.ViewDefinitions> 
                <telerik:WeekViewDefinition/> 
                <telerik:DayViewDefinition /> 
            </telerik:RadScheduleView.ViewDefinitions> 
        </telerik:RadScheduleView>

TimeMarkersSource

TimeMarkersSource - gets or sets the data source (IEnumerable) used to generate the TimeMarkers in the RadScheduleView control. It can be bound to data from a variety of data sources in the form of common language runtime (CLR) objects and XML.

Note that the data source passed to the property TimeMarkersSource should contain only objects of type TimeMarker.

Example 7: Defining the TimeMarkers collection in the view model

private ObservableCollection<TimeMarker> timeMarkers; 
    public ObservableCollection<TimeMarker> TimeMarkers 
    { 
        get 
        { 
            if (this.timeMarkers == null) 
            { 
                this.timeMarkers = this.CreateTimeMarkers(); 
            } 
 
            return this.timeMarkers; 
        } 
    } 
 
    private ObservableCollection<TimeMarker> CreateTimeMarkers() 
    { 
        ObservableCollection<TimeMarker> timeMarkers = new ObservableCollection<TimeMarker>() { 
        new TimeMarker("Busy", new SolidColorBrush( Colors.Red ) ), 
        new TimeMarker("Free", new SolidColorBrush( Colors.Green ) )}; 
 
        return timeMarkers; 
    }

Example 8: Binding the TimeMarkersSource

XAML

<telerik:RadScheduleView x:Name="scheduleView" 
            DataContext="{StaticResource MyViewModel}" 
            TimeMarkersSource="{Binding TimeMarkers}" 
            AppointmentsSource="{Binding Appointments}"> 
            <telerik:RadScheduleView.ViewDefinitions> 
                <telerik:WeekViewDefinition/> 
                <telerik:DayViewDefinition /> 
            </telerik:RadScheduleView.ViewDefinitions> 
        </telerik:RadScheduleView>

GroupDescriptionsSource

GroupDescriptionsSource - gets or sets the data source (IEnumerable<GroupDescription>) used to generate the GroupDescriptions in the RadScheduleView control. It can be bound to data from a variety of data sources in the form of common language runtime (CLR) objects and XML.

Note that the data source passed to the property GroupDescriptionsSource should contain only objects of type GroupDescription.

Example 9: Defining the GroupDescriptions collection in the view model

 private GroupDescriptionCollection groupDescriptions; 
    public GroupDescriptionCollection GroupDescriptions 
    { 
        get 
        { 
            if (this.groupDescriptions == null) 
            { 
                this.groupDescriptions = new GroupDescriptionCollection() { new DateGroupDescription() }; 
                TimeZoneGroupDescription groupDescription = new TimeZoneGroupDescription(); 
                this.groupDescriptions.Add(groupDescription); 
            } 
            return this.groupDescriptions; 
        } 
    }

Example 10: Binding the GroupDescriptionsSource

XAML

<telerik:RadScheduleView x:Name="scheduleView" 
            DataContext="{StaticResource MyViewModel}" 
            GroupDescriptionsSource="{Binding GroupDescriptions}" 
            AppointmentsSource="{Binding Appointments}"> 
            <telerik:RadScheduleView.ViewDefinitions> 
                <telerik:WeekViewDefinition/> 
                <telerik:DayViewDefinition /> 
            </telerik:RadScheduleView.ViewDefinitions> 
        </telerik:RadScheduleView>