Given a DataGridControl, is there a way to get a reference to its InsertionRow?

Or, given an InsertionRow, I can override EndInit or somesuch to get some code in there, but is there any way to get the DataGridControl it's being created for?

If it was just created once, I could exploit the timing locality between the creation of the two objects and snag a reference that way, but I'm assuming virtualization means old refs to InsertionRow may become invalid and new ones created at unpredictable times, so I need an on-the-fly solution.

If you want to get a reference to the InsertionRow in the headers of a grid, you will need to handle the InsertionRow's Loaded event and retrieve the reference there.

To get a reference to an item's parent DataGridControl, you can either get its DataGridContext and check the ParentDataGridControl property or you can use the GetParentDataGridControl attached property defined on the DataGridControl class.

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Technical Writer - Xceed Software

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InsertionRow's Loaded event - okay, how do you set this? There doesn't seem to be a Loaded virtual method; one can do row.Loaded += ... - but the code to do that, needs to be put somewhere else such as EndInit?

InsertionRow doesn't seem to have a DataGridContext member?

You can do it that way:

<DataTemplate>
<xcdg:InsertionRow Loaded="MyLoadedHandler" />
</DataTemplate>

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Marc Laroche
Software Developer
Xceed Software Inc.

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Right, that should work for the Loaded handler, thanks - I assume Loaded is called exactly once every time a new InsertionRow is created for a given data grid because of virtualization?

That still leaves the problem of obtaining a handle to the InsertionRow from DataGridControl, or to the DataGridControl from InsertionRow - is there a way to do either of these things? InsertionRow doesn't have a DataGridContext member, and as far as I can tell from a Google search, ParentDataGridControl is only a property of class Column.

Further investigation... according to:
http://doc.xceedsoft.com/products/XceedWpfDataGrid/Migrating_from_version_1.x.html

Column.ParentDataGridControl no longer exists; the replacement is said to be DataGridControl.GetParentDataGridControl. But how is that a replacement? You can't call it unless you already have the DataGridControl reference, in which case you don't need to call it.

It is a static method :)

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Technical Writer - Xceed Software

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. - Mark Twain

You're right, so it is.

void InsertionRow_Loaded(object sender, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs e)
{
var grid = DataGridControl.GetParentDataGridControl(sender as DependencyObject);
}

And then I can store a reference to the InsertionRow in the original DataGridControl. Thanks!