Telerik Grid with Identical Property Names - asp.net-mvc-2

Question

I'm working on a medical application where a grid needs to display the ICD description as well as its associated HCC category description. The ICD and HCC types look like this:
public class ICD {
public String Code { get; set; }
public String Description { get; set; }
public HCC HCC { get; set; }
}
public class HCC {
public Int32 ID { get; set; }
public String Description { get; set; }
}
When I bind the Telerik MVC extensions grid to a list of ICD objects, I'm setting up the columns like so:
this.Html.Telerik().Grid(this.Model.ICDs)
.Name("ICDGrid")
.DataKeys(keys => keys.Add(icd => icd.Code))
.DataBinding(binding => {
binding.Ajax().Select(this.Model.AjaxSelectMethod);
binding.Ajax().Update(this.Model.AjaxUpdateMethod);
})
.Columns(columns => {
columns.Bound(icd => icd.ICDType.Name).Title("ICD 9/10");
columns.Bound(icd => icd.Code);
columns.Bound(icd => icd.Description);
columns.Bound(icd => icd.HCC.Description).Title("HCC Category")
columns.Command(commands => commands.Delete()).Title("Actions").Width(90);
})
.Editable(editing => editing.Mode(GridEditMode.InCell).DefaultDataItem(new ICD()))
.ToolBar(commands => {
commands.Insert();
commands.SubmitChanges();
})
.Sortable()
.Filterable()
.Pageable(paging => paging.PageSize(12))
.Render();
The problem is that both ICD and HCC have properties named "Description", and I have no control over that. Is there a way to tell Telerik to call them different things in the JavaScript it generates? Something like ICDDescription and HCCDescription?

Answer 1

Currently you cannot alias the properties. What you can do is create a ViewModel object with where the properties are named uniquely. Then bind the grid to the ViewModel object. Here is a code snippet:
public class ICDViewModel
{
public string Description
{
get;
set;
}
public string HCCDescription
{
get;
set;
}
// The rest of the properties of the original ICD class
}
Then you need to change the type of Model.ICDs to use ICDViewModel. You can use the Select extension method to map ICD to ICDViewModel:
Model.ICDs = icds.Select(icd => new ICDViewModel
{
Description = icd.Description,
HCCDescription = icd.HCC.Description
/* set the rest of the ICD properties */
});