Silverlight WCF databind related tables - silverlight

Question

I have a table with foreign keys. I want to display the data as the description and not the Id for the related table. From the Entity service I have made the .Include statement on the data model for it to return. Here is what I have tried, the station shows up in the cell, but nothing in the combobox:
<sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn CanUserReorder="False" CanUserResize="False" CanUserSort="False" Width="Auto" Header="Station">
<sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Station.Description}" />
</DataTemplate>
</sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
<sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellEditingTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding Station}" />
</DataTemplate>
</sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellEditingTemplate>
</sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn>
<OperationContract()>
Public Function LoadPersonnel(clientId As Integer) As List(Of Personnel)
Dim result As List(Of Personnel)
Try
result = db.Personnels.Include("Station").Where(Function(o) o.ClientId = clientId).ToList
Catch
result = Nothing
End Try
Return result
End Function
Also tried:
<ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding}" DisplayMemberPath="{Binding Station.Description}" SelectedItem="{Binding Station.Description}" SelectedValue="{Binding Station.StationId}" />

Answer 1

Do like this,
<sdk:DataGrid AutoGenerateColumns="False" Height="100" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="107,90,0,0" Name="dataGrid1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="251" >
<sdk:DataGrid.Columns>
<sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn CanUserReorder="False" CanUserResize="False" CanUserSort="False" Width="Auto" Header="Station">
<sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Station.Description}" />
</DataTemplate>
</sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
<sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellEditingTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding Station}" DropDownOpened="ComboBox_DropDownOpened" />
</DataTemplate>
</sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellEditingTemplate>
</sdk:DataGridTemplateColumn>
</sdk:DataGrid.Columns>
</sdk:DataGrid>
in the drop down opened event, assign the itemssource,
private void ComboBox_DropDownOpened(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var combo = (ComboBox)sender;
combo.ItemsSource = Station;
combo.DisplayMemberPath = "Description";
}