Do CSLA collections support binding to child properties? Example, I need to return a collection of Invoices, including information about each Invoice Customer, and I need to bind this collection to a grid (ex DataGridView), which will display information from both Invoice and Customer entities (ex DataPropertyName = "Customer.Name").
And while grid is bound to this collection, I need to be able to sort on each column. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Goran
This depends on the data binding technology, not really on CSLA.
CSLA collections are just .NET collections with the .NET binding interfaces implemented. The same with CSLA objects.
XAML binding can drill down to a child object. I don't think Windows Forms or Web Forms could do that.
Well, since we cant change how windows forms data binding works, then only other way is to extended our collections with custom PropertyDescriptors and custom TypeDescriptors. I was able to extend sortable collection to support binding to child properties, but I am busting my head how to create DynamicMethod delegate to support comparing on nested properties. 
The simple solution is to flatten the hierarchy and have just one list with properties (no hierarchy). You shouldn't care too much about entities in your list and rather view it a one list with properties.
That way - Windows forms databinding will work just fine and you can sort on any field - just wrap your list with SortedBindingList in your form.
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