I dragged a xamGrid control from the Visual Studio Data Sources and drop it in the designer.
The column name headers show up in the designer as it should.
When I go to the xamGrid properties and edit the column collection to reorder or hide certain columns it does not contain any columns. The standard DataGrid works fine. Any ideas how to allow for designer editing of columns?
Thanks.
Hello cdmassey,
Our R&D team researched the reported by you behavior and have concluded that this feature is not currently supported by our “xamGrid” control.
We have contacted the Microsoft Development team in order to provide you with some workaround for this behavior if it is possible. The response from Microsoft was that “Data Source” window has hard coded logic specifically made for the Silverlight “DataGrid”. The “Data Source” window does not have an extensibility API to inform the control that is being created or how/why it is being created. There is also no extensible way to do drag/drop from a “Tool Window” onto the design surface that can be implemented to allow this feature for third party controls.
In that time there is no support for the required by you feature in any other third party Silverlight grid – it can be used only with Microsoft’s “DataGrid”.
After our request the Microsoft Development Team has plans to add this request in their tracking list.
When they start to support this kind of functionality in their environment we will do our best to provide this feature in our “xamGrid” control.
Let me know if you need more information or further assistance regarding this question.
Let me know if you have any further questions.