Xceed DataGrid for WPF v7.2 Documentation
Code Snippets
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Throughout this section of the documentation you will find fully functional code snippets that demonstrate a variety of features used in real-life scenarios.

Manipulating Data

  • Editing Data
    • Entering edit when a cell is current
    • Using a masked text box
    • Handling routed edit events
    • Defining foreign key configurations
    • Custom key/value mappings

 

  • Filtering Data Items
    • Filtering data items (Filter event)
    • Enabling automatic filtering
    • Providing a new auto-filter control style
    • Creating external auto-filter controls
    • Providing custom distinct values
    • Using a filter row
    • Providing default filter criteria
    • Enabling and disabling advanced filtering
    • Applying a style to localize the operators

 

  • Grouping Data items
    • Grouping data items
    • Preventing grouping and sorting
    • Defining a default group configuration
    • Programmatically toggling group expansion
    • Custom grouping
    • Changing the group-header text
    • Providing a group-configuration selector
    • Creating a group-configuration selector

 

  • Providing, Inserting, and Removing Data
    • Binding to a data table
    • Binding to an array
    • Retrieving values from the current item
    • Initializing an insertion row
    • Providing unbound data
    • Binding to a LINQ query (SQL)
    • Binding to a LINQ query (XML)
    • Binding to a master/detail data table
    • Defining detail descriptions
    • Manually handling the insertion process
    • Deleting selected items
    • Providing unbound data (DataGridUnboundItemProperty)
    • Binding to an IQueryable source
  • Sorting Data Items
    • Sorting data items
    • Preventing sorting and grouping
    • Custom sorting
    • Handling collection-changed events
    • Providing a custom sort comparer

 

  • Validating Data
    • Providing a cell error style
    • Providing binding-level validation
    • Providing UI-level validation

 

  • Using Statistical Functions
    • Displaying statistical functions
    • Changing statistical contexts
    • Custom statistical-result layout
    • Displaying statistical functions in details
    • Custom statistical function

Master/Detail

Views and Themes

  • Customizing Views and Themes
    • Setting a view and theme through attribute syntax
    • Setting a view and theme through property element syntax
    • Displaying a scroll tip
    • Enabling the column chooser

 

  • Customizing Cardflow 3D Views
    • Providing surface configurations
    • Providing an empty-surface brush
    • Applying a grid background brush
    • Applying a card background brush
    • Coercing a surface configuration

 

  • Customizing Card Views
    • Adding an InsertionRow to the fixed headers
    • Clearing a fixed header section
    • Changing the main (primary column)
    • Adding separator lines
    • Recreating the default card-view header
    • Applying a grid background  brush
    • Applying a card background brush
  • Customizing Table Views
    • Adding an InsertionRow to the fixed headers
    • Clearing a fixed header section
    • Adding vertical and horizontal grid lines
    • Hiding the group-level indicator pane
    • Hiding the row-selector pane
    • Fixing columns
    • Allowing horizontal scrolling
    • Using routed view properties
    • Stretching columns
    • Applying a grid background brush

 

  • Customizing Multi-surface Themes
    • Providing surface configurations
    • Providing a default region configuration
    • Defining region configurations
    • Setting a multi-surface theme
    • Changing a title-region position
    • Providing new gradient colors
    • Creating a custom surface configuration and multi-surface theme
 

Customizing Appearance

 

  • Styling Elements
    • Styling data cells
    • Styling data cells through triggers
    • Alternating data-row styles
    • Styling a fixed-column splitter
    • Changing the background color of a data row
    • Forcing items in the fixed headers to occupy all the available width
    • Styling row selectors
    • Providing a detail configuration item-container style
    • Changing the no-group content
    • Centering column titles
    • Applying a card background brush

 

  • Templating Elements
    • Providing a cell-content template
    • Providing a group-header control template
    • Providing a data cell template
    • Providing a data row template for table view types
    • Providing a data row template for card view types
    • Providing an insertion row template
    • Formatting a cell's content
    • Changing the group-header text

Other

 

  • Printing and Exporting  
    • Configuring a print view
    • Configuring a progress window
    • Styling a page
    • Exporting to Excel (ExcelExporter class)
    • Exporting to Excel (ExportToExcel method)
    • Changing the group-header formats

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