TreeView, Linq-To-SQL recursive data set

Question

I have an IEnumerable (Employee) with a ParentID / ChildID relationship with myself that I can bind data to a TreeView and perfectly fills the hierarchy. However, I want to be able to manually scroll through all the records and create all the nodes programmatically so that I can change the attributes for each node based on the data for this / none element.

Is there a tutorial that explains how to do this? I have seen many who use datasets and data but don’t show how to do this in Linq to SQL (IEnumerable)

UPDATE:

This is how I used this with a DataSet - I just can't find how to do the same with IEnumerable.

Private Sub GenerateTreeView()
        Dim ds As New DataSet()

        Dim tasktree As New Task(_taskID)

        Dim dt As DataTable = tasktree.GetTaskTree()

        ds.Tables.Add(dt)

        ds.Relations.Add("NodeRelation", dt.Columns("TaskID"), dt.Columns("ParentID"))

        Dim dbRow As DataRow
        For Each dbRow In dt.Rows
            If dbRow("TaskID") = _taskID Then
                Dim node As RadTreeNode = CreateNode(dbRow("Subject").ToString(), False, dbRow("TaskID").ToString())
                RadTree1.Nodes.Add(node)
                RecursivelyPopulate(dbRow, node)
            End If
        Next dbRow
    End Sub 

    Private Sub RecursivelyPopulate(ByVal dbRow As DataRow, ByVal node As RadTreeNode)
        Dim childRow As DataRow
        Dim StrikeThrough As String = ""
        Dim ExpandNode As Boolean = True
        For Each childRow In dbRow.GetChildRows("NodeRelation")
            Select Case childRow("StatusTypeID")
                Case 2
                    StrikeThrough = "ActiveTask"
                Case 3
                    StrikeThrough = "CompletedTask"
                    ExpandNode = False
                Case 4, 5
                    StrikeThrough = "ClosedTask"
                    ExpandNode = False
                Case Else
                    StrikeThrough = "InactiveTask"
                    ExpandNode = False
            End Select
            Dim childNode As RadTreeNode = CreateNode("<span class=""" & StrikeThrough & """><a href=""Task.aspx?taskid=" & childRow("TaskID").ToString() & """>" & childRow("Subject").ToString() & "</a></span>", ExpandNode, childRow("TaskID").ToString())
            node.Nodes.Add(childNode)
            RecursivelyPopulate(childRow, childNode)
            ExpandNode = True
        Next childRow
    End Sub

    Private Function CreateNode(ByVal [text] As String, ByVal expanded As Boolean, ByVal id As String) As RadTreeNode
        Dim node As New RadTreeNode([text])
        node.Expanded = expanded

        Return node
    End Function

Answer 1

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public interface IGetChildItems<TEntity>
{
    IEnumerable<TEntity> GetChildItems();
}

public static IEnumerable<TEntity> Flatten<TEntity>(TEntity root)
    where TEntity : IGetChildItems<TEntity>
{
    var stack = new Stack<TEntity>();
    stack.Push(root);
    while (stack.Count > 0)
    {
        var item = stack.Pop();
        foreach (var child in item.GetChildItems())
        {
            stack.Push(child);
        }
        yield return item;
    }
}

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Imports System
Imports System.Collections
Imports System.Collections.Generic

Public Class HierarchyEnumerator(Of TEntity As IGetChildItems(Of TEntity))
    Implements IEnumerator(Of TEntity), IDisposable, IEnumerator

    Public Sub New(ByVal root As TEntity)
        Me.stack = New Stack(Of TEntity)
        Me.stack.Push(root)
    End Sub

    Public Sub Dispose()
    End Sub

    Public Function MoveNext() As Boolean
        Do While (Me.stack.Count > 0)
            Dim item As TEntity = Me.stack.Pop
            Dim child As TEntity
            For Each child In item.GetChildItems
                Me.stack.Push(child)
            Next
            Me.current = item
            Return True
        Loop
        Return False
    End Function

    Public Sub Reset()
        Throw New NotSupportedException
    End Sub

    Public ReadOnly Property Current() As TEntity
        Get
            Return Me.current
        End Get
    End Property

    Private ReadOnly Property System.Collections.IEnumerator.Current As Object
        Get
            Return Me.Current
        End Get
    End Property

    Private current As TEntity
    Private stack As Stack(Of TEntity)
End Class