Josh Smith

Introducing a new XamDataGrid Behavior: DisplayAdorningEditors

This blog post reviews a technique that can vastly reduce the amount of screen real estate required to display your application’s data in XamDataGrid. Introduction In my previous post on this blog, I showed how to display an extra field of data in the Read More...

Adorning XamDataGrid with a Popup Editor

In a recent post on the XamDataGrid Forum someone asked how to add an additional editor to a cell when it goes into edit mode. The scenario is that the data source objects have twenty four numeric properties, and each numeric property is accompanied by Read More...

Emulating the IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem Behavior in XamDataGrid

In WPF programming, you often set a list control’s IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem property to true so that selecting an item in the list will cause the rest of the UI to treat that item as the “current” item to display. In addition, by setting that property Read More...

Display Multiple Icons in a XamDataGrid Field

This blog post demonstrates how to, optionally, display multiple icons/images/indicators in an UnboundField of the XamDataGrid. This is a common use case of a data grid control, where one column displays multiple status values. In this example, we have Read More...

Adding CheckBoxes to the Record Selectors in XamDataGrid

This blog post explains how to add CheckBox controls to the record selectors in XamDataGrid. We will also see how to add a CheckBox to the header area above the record selectors, so that you can have Check All / Uncheck All behavior. You can download Read More...