Hi Oyvind Thanks for the purposal, although, i was not able to test or use it properly but in such case we may need n number of formating styles for each and every combinantion.

Stephen, have you any idea/comments about this approch?

thanks

I dont agree 100% with the "No" since ive done it already. But i would call my solution a "creative workaround", so the "No" is valid if we consider only straight forward "non-creative" solutions here. :)

The short story of how i did it is :

1. Use Expression Blend to pull out the CellStyle, store it in some resource file. Ive made myself a Theme.xaml file where i have it.

2. Edit this style to use a ValueConverter with the HorizontalAlignment property of the ContentPresenter :

Like this :

<ContentPresenter HorizontalAlignment="{Binding Converter={StaticResource AlignmentConverter}}" ...

- in the valueconverter have some code that returns the following depending on ure needs. :

    HorizontalAlignment.Right; or ....left or center....

3. Now the trick is to read the style as "text" from a text file with a streamreader to avoid some trouble :p :

The method i use to read out the style i need looks like this :

 public static Style GetCellStyle(string key)
        {
            try
            {
                Style cellStyle = null;

                System.Windows.Resources.StreamResourceInfo sri = Application.GetResourceStream(
                                                       new Uri("Theme.xaml", UriKind.Relative));

                using (System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(sri.Stream))
                {
                    System.Xml.Linq.XElement element = System.Xml.Linq.XElement.Parse(sr.ReadToEnd());
                    XName keyAttrib = XName.Get("Key", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml");
                    var style = (from f in element.Descendants()
                                 where f.Attribute(keyAttrib) != null && f.Attribute(keyAttrib).Value == key
                                 select f).FirstOrDefault();

                    if (style != null)
                    {
                        cellStyle = System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader.Load(style.ToString()) as Style;
                    }
                }
                return cellStyle;
            }
            catch (Exception ex )
            {
                throw ex;
            }
        }

4. Now make sure you set the datacontext of the cell to something useful so that you can code some logic to return the right thing in your valueconverter. -> In CellControlAttached do e.Cell.Control.DataContext = <something I need for my return logic>.

5. Read the style i want with whats in 3. and assign it to the cell you want to change the alignment to. Also in the CellControlAttached event.

6. Your done.

Its a creative workaround and can effect performance, but if your not to picky and can live with that it works.

Stephen : It is very relevant to be able to do this if you for example are using the grid to shape a "report" or something similar that have a high level of customization demands linked to it. In the application i currently maintain there are demands for font customization and alignment in addition to CellMerge  (currently not implementet due to the grids missing support and my heads missing ability to find a good workaround) and StackedHeaders support  (which i also have some very creative but not satisfying workaround for).

Hope this helps a bit on the way of getting something implemented.

Øyvind

Hi, 

Currently, no. 

By having that property, we override the cell's HorizontalAlignment property, so it's not possible to change via a style. 

We can look into possibly making the HorizontalContentAlignment property nullable, so that if not specified we respect it on a cell level. 

However, i am curious about your use case, of having different cells in the same column aligned differently. Could you explain what you're trying to do?

Thanks,

-SteveZ

Hi Stephen,

I used following code on column and it works fine for the complete column, but I want to apply Different Alignment on individual cells of a column.

            <igGrid:TextColumn Key="Col1" HorizontalContentAlignment="Center">
                    <igGrid:TextColumn.HeaderTemplate>
                        <DataTemplate>
                            <TextBlock Text="Col1"/>
                        </DataTemplate>
                    </igGrid:TextColumn.HeaderTemplate>                   
                </igGrid:TextColumn>

Is there any way to apply different cell alignment in a single column like conditional formating demo example (that applied different cell format on individual cells).

Thanks