Represents a table-view layout in which rows are laid out horizontally as in traditional grid-like styles, but with animated smooth scrolling, sticky group headers and sticky master-detail master row and headers, full-column animated drag and drop reordering.
The View property of the DataGridControl class determines which view is applied to a grid. If the View property is left to its default value, null (Nothing in Visual Basic), or explicitly set to null, the default table-view layout will be used with the system color scheme. The Theme property of the View class can be set to change the color scheme applied to a grid's elements. If left to its default value, null, the system color scheme will be used. In either case, if the system-color theme is not recognized (e.g., a third-party color scheme is being used), the Aero normal-color theme will be used.
Views and themes can be set through attribute syntax or property element syntax. To change the default view and/or theme using attribute syntax, the name of the view to use (e.g., CardView) must be provided, optionally followed by the name of the theme class (e.g., NormalColorTheme), or the name of the class without the "Theme" portion. If the theme is omitted, the default Aero normal-color theme will be used.
Fixed Columns vs. Templates
In order to support fixed columns when creating a new row template for a table-view layout, the following criteria must be met:
The PART_CellsHost template part must be a FixedCellPanel.
If a new template is provided for a DataGridControl and fixed columns are to be supported, it is essential that a TableViewScrollViewer be used. This scroll viewer is responsible for preserving the TranslateTransforms that fix and scroll elements, as well as executing the PageLeft and PageRight actions according to the reduced viewport. It is also recommended that an AdornerDecorator be located above the TableViewScrollViewer of the templated DataGridControl to support drag and dropping of the fixed-column splitter correctly.
Example
All examples in this topic assume that the grid is bound to the Employees table of the Northwind database, unless stated otherwise.
The following example demonstrates how to set routed view properties on detail configurations to change the width of their detail indicators as well as to fix columns and remove the fixed-column splitter.
Target Platforms: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2