Hi All,

What I want is to apply a template to modify the way title is displayed for columns as follows;

<!-- Data Template for Xceed Column-->
<DataTemplate x:Key="colTemplate">
  <Label Content="{xcdg:CellEditorBinding}" TextBlock.FontWeight="Bold" />
</DataTemplate>

If I use this template explicitly with each column as follows;

 <xcdg:Column FieldName="AnyThing" TitleTemplate="{StaticResource colTemplate}" />

it works fine. But this way I have to specify this TitleTemplate for each and every column in the grid.

If I try to write a element targetted style for Column as;

<Style TargetType="{x:Type xcdg:Column}">
     <Setter Property="TitleTemplate" Value="{StaticResource colTemplate}" />
</Style>

it does not work. I've tried to put this style in Window.Resources, Grid.Resources and even in DataGridControl.Resources but of no use.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

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Abdullah Ansari
Senior Software Engineer
Outworks Solutions Private Limited

Everything is okay in the end. If its not okay, then its not the end.

No takers of this yet???

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Abdullah Ansari
Senior Software Engineer
Outworks Solutions Private Limited

Everything is okay in the end. If its not okay, then its not the end.

Hi Abdullah,

I, too, spent a long time on this, then referred back to the help file. In the help file table of contents under Basic Concepts > Object Model Overview > Column Class article there is a section "Appearance". It states:

All elements in a grid, with the exception of columns, can be stylized in the same way as elements provided by the Microsoft .NET Framework.

I'm just suffering and putting it in every column.

David

I will forward your request to the developers however, it is possible that it is something we will not be able to change...

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Mathieu Drimonakos
-Technical Designer-

I am able to achieve this by modifying the ColumnManagerCell style to include a new Setter as follows:

 <Setter Property="FontWeight" Value="Bold" />

 this sets all the Cells font in the the Column Manager Row to bold

I also struggled a bit with this.

It seems the best way to change the template of the column title row, is to define a new control template for the ColumnManagerCell class.

Just make sure to include a thumb with the name: PART_ColumnResizerThumb in the control template definition for the column resize to work.

Here is a sample:

<Style TargetType="{x:Type xcdg:ColumnManagerCell}">

<Setter Property="Template">

<Setter.Value>

<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type xcdg:ColumnManagerCell}">

<Grid>

 

<Button>

<Button.Content>

<ContentPresenter TextBlock.Foreground="Blue"></ContentPresenter>

</Button.Content>

 

</Button>

<Thumb Width= "1" Name="PART_ColumnResizerThumb" HorizontalAlignment="Right"></Thumb>

 

 

</Grid>

</ControlTemplate>

</Setter.Value>

</Setter>

</Style>

This defnition could be done inside the theme as well.

The TitleTemplate property of the Column class, takes a datatemplate and there seems to be no direct way to change the control template through a property. It would be good if the control developers provide a property for setting the control template as they have provided for setting a data template.

It would be good if Xceed publishes few samples on how the control template of the various elements in the grid view could be changed. (Atleast I was not able to find one)

I am evaluating Xceed grid for one of our projects and using it for the first time. Let me know if I am missing something.