I am not sure if this is possible with this grid... DevExpress's winforms grid has this feature. When you are about to 'drill down' you can dynamically provide the data for the drill through via events. For example, when I expand the + next to a row, I get some event, I provide the relevant data and I get an opportunity to provide the child data for that detail relationship.

Can the Xceed WPF grid mimic this behavior? As I mentioned on another thread, I am trying to make the WPF Grid Vendor decision presently and I want to choose Xceed, I am just checking all my current use cases to see that they are covered and I can only code so much :)

Thanks;

Chris

Hi Chris,

I had the same dilema. Unfortunately, I got a response that it's currently not supported for this release. I dont feel that this feature would be released soon. But still we have to wait for the roadmap.

http://xceed.com/CS/forums/thread/14165.aspx

Hth

 

You could create a custom DataGridDetailDescription that provides the data you want to display as detail information for a row. For example:

http://doc.xceedsoft.com/products/XceedWpfDataGrid/Custom_Detail_Descriptions.html 

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So would this mechanism allow me to have different detail views/ drill throughs for different parents?

 

For exaple, if I have the top level representing Order objects, and I want the children that have car orders to show columns like # of doors, etc, and orders for Helicopters to have details that are 100% different at the detail level, would this mechanism do the trick?

Thanks for any guidance/ help.

-Chris

Each detail "level" needs to have the same number of columns; however, what you could do is have multiple sibling details (e.g., one for cars and one for helicopters) and hide the car or helicopter details from the rows that do not have the information.

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