Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunaly this is not the issue. I will make an sample:

The Grid looks like:

H1 H2 H3
D1 D2 D3
D4 D5 D6

H* are the headers; D* are the data cells

If I click on Header H2, which selects the column, press <Strg><C> and past into Excel. The pasted values are these:

H1 H2 H3
D1 D2 D3

This is not what I expected.

The selection (blue highlighted, except the header of course) in the grid looks OK. Like the expected result:

H2
D2
D5

 Any other ideas?

I try to create a striped code sample.

Hi,

I tested this out in a small sample, and much to my surprise, I am getting the same results. Perhaps there is some reason for this, but it doesn't make any sense to me. So I'm going to forward this post over to Infragistics Developer Support and have the, investigate this as a possible bug.

So, what's the verdict?  Is this a bug?  If so, what's the workaround?

Hi,

After looking into this in some detail, it turns out not to be as simple as it seems.There are a great many questions and issues surrounding what to do in certain situations.

Like what happens if you have both columns and rows selected?

What if you select a column in a child band in when the grid is grouped?

And how do we handle memory usage if you select a column in a grid with a large number of rows since this would force the creation of every cell in the row.

These and other issues are why this feature was not implemented originally, and so this has been entered as a feature request and may be implemented in a future release.

Hmm,

Sorry, but that's a lame answer.  Nothing is easy in programming :)  Note that Excel doesn't allow copy if both a row and column are selected.  As for memory issues or other technical issues, as a "user" I don't care, just make it so that whatever is selected on screen is what gets put into the clipboard (boy, it feels great to be a user and say that, hah!)

Here's my workaround that I implemented in my application:

private void ultraGrid1_AfterSelectChange(object sender, AfterSelectChangeEventArgs e)
{
    TransformColumnSelectionToCellSelection();
}

private void TransformColumnSelectionToCellSelection()
{
    if (ultraGrid1.Selected.Columns.Count > 0 && ultraGrid1.Selected.Cells.Count == 0)
    {
        ultraGrid1.Selected.Cells.Clear();
        var columns = ultraGrid1.Selected.Columns.Cast<ColumnHeader>().Select(i => i.Column);
        var cells = ultraGrid1.Rows.Cast<UltraGridRow>().SelectMany(i => i.Cells.Cast<UltraGridCell>().Where(j => columns.Contains(j.Column)));
        ultraGrid1.Selected.Cells.AddRange(cells.ToArray());
    }
}

robarch - your solution works great for me too!

Mike - any word on a bugfix for this?

Thanks to both of you!

David McClelland

Hi David,

The word is that this is currently working as designed and this is considered a feature request. So it may be added in a future release. :)