How to Create a Child Table with Foreign Key Reference

3 Jan 20202 minutes to read

When you want to create a relation between child and grandchild table with ForeignKeyReference, set RelationKind property of GridRelationDescriptor to ForeignKeyReference.

The following code illustrates this:

C#

public Form1()
{
//Adds relation to ParentTable.
    GridRelationDescriptor parentToChildRelationDescriptor = new GridRelationDescriptor();
    parentToChildRelationDescriptor.ChildTableName = "MyChildTable";    //Same as SourceListSetEntry.Name for childTable (see below)
    parentToChildRelationDescriptor.RelationKind = RelationKind.RelatedMasterDetails;
    parentToChildRelationDescriptor.RelationKeys.Add("parentID", "ParentID");
    parentToChildRelationDescriptor.ChildTableDescriptor.VisibleColumns.Add("Name");
    parentToChildRelationDescriptor.ChildTableDescriptor.VisibleColumns.Add("MyGrandChildTable_Name");
    gridGroupingControl1.TableDescriptor.Relations.Add(parentToChildRelationDescriptor);

//Adds Relation to GrandChildTable in ChildTable like look up.
    GridRelationDescriptor childToGrandChildRelationDescriptor = new GridRelationDescriptor();
    childToGrandChildRelationDescriptor.ChildTableName = "MyGrandChildTable";  //Same as SourceListSetEntry.Name for grandChildTable (see below)
    childToGrandChildRelationDescriptor.RelationKind = RelationKind.ForeignKeyReference;
    childToGrandChildRelationDescriptor.RelationKeys.Add("childID", "GrandChildID");
    childToGrandChildRelationDescriptor.ChildTableDescriptor.VisibleColumns.Add("GrandChildID");
    childToGrandChildRelationDescriptor.ChildTableDescriptor.VisibleColumns.Add("Name");

//Adds relation to ChildTable.
    parentToChildRelationDescriptor.ChildTableDescriptor.Relations.Add(childToGrandChildRelationDescriptor);
}

VB.NET

Public Sub New()

'Adds relation to ParentTable.
Dim parentToChildRelationDescriptor As New GridRelationDescriptor()
parentToChildRelationDescriptor.ChildTableName = "MyChildTable"
parentToChildRelationDescriptor.RelationKind = RelationKind.RelatedMasterDetails
parentToChildRelationDescriptor.RelationKeys.Add("parentID", "ParentID")
parentToChildRelationDescriptor.ChildTableDescriptor.VisibleColumns.Add("Name")
parentToChildRelationDescriptor.ChildTableDescriptor.VisibleColumns.Add("MyGrandChildTable_Name")
gridGroupingControl1.TableDescriptor.Relations.Add(parentToChildRelationDescriptor)

'Adds Relation to GrandChildTable in ChildTable like look up.
Dim childToGrandChildRelationDescriptor As New GridRelationDescriptor()
childToGrandChildRelationDescriptor.ChildTableName = "MyGrandChildTable"
childToGrandChildRelationDescriptor.RelationKind = RelationKind.ForeignKeyReference
childToGrandChildRelationDescriptor.RelationKeys.Add("childID", "GrandChildID")
childToGrandChildRelationDescriptor.ChildTableDescriptor.VisibleColumns.Add("GrandChildID")
childToGrandChildRelationDescriptor.ChildTableDescriptor.VisibleColumns.Add("Name")

'Adds relation to ChildTable.
parentToChildRelationDescriptor.ChildTableDescriptor.Relations.Add(childToGrandChildRelationDescriptor)
End Sub