Formatting a Cell's Content

The following example demonstrates how to format a cell's content to display a numeric value as a currency value. Although it might be tempting to apply the converter to a column's DisplayMemberBindingInfo, this is not the recommended location as not only will the cells' content be formatted but the data type of the cells' content will be changed to the converter's.

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<Grid xmlns:xcdg="http://schemas.xceed.com/wpf/xaml/datagrid" xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Xceed.Wpf.Documentation"> <Grid.Resources> <xcdg:DataGridCollectionViewSource x:Key="cvs_orderdetails" Source="{Binding Source={x:Static Application.Current}, Path=OrderDetails}"/> <xcdg:CurrencyConverter x:Key="currencyConverter"/> <DataTemplate x:Key="currency_celltemplate"> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Converter={StaticResource currencyConverter}}"/> </DataTemplate> </Grid.Resources> <xcdg:DataGridControl x:Name="OrderDetailGrid" ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource cvs_orderdetails}}"> <xcdg:DataGridControl.Columns> <xcdg:Column FieldName="UnitPrice" CellContentTemplate="{StaticResource currency_celltemplate}"/> </xcdg:DataGridControl.Columns> </xcdg:DataGridControl> </Grid>

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<Grid xmlns:xcdg="http://schemas.xceed.com/wpf/xaml/datagrid"
      xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Xceed.Wpf.Documentation">
  <Grid.Resources>
    <xcdg:DataGridCollectionViewSource x:Key="cvs_orderdetails"
                                    Source="{Binding Source={x:Static Application.Current},
                                                      Path=OrderDetails}"/>          
          
    <xcdg:CurrencyConverter x:Key="currencyConverter"/>
    <DataTemplate x:Key="currency_celltemplate">
      <TextBlock Text="{Binding Converter={StaticResource currencyConverter}}"/>
    </DataTemplate>
  </Grid.Resources>
  <xcdg:DataGridControl x:Name="OrderDetailGrid"
                        ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource cvs_orderdetails}}">
    <xcdg:DataGridControl.Columns>
      <xcdg:Column FieldName="UnitPrice"
                   CellContentTemplate="{StaticResource currency_celltemplate}"/>
    </xcdg:DataGridControl.Columns>
  </xcdg:DataGridControl>
</Grid>