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answered on 24 Sep 2009, 04:38 PM

Actually, this is probably the biggest hole in your product line. If you think about it, all your customers are designing advanced apps rather than pretty gui stuff. All advanced apps have many options/settings, just like blend does for example. All of us need a property grid as good as, perhaps lower skill level than that of blend. Therefore all of us will have to purchase this from a third party, then perhaps we will just go with them. From a marketting standpoint you should offer a complete suite so that we don't need to develop relationships with your competitors.

I love the way you guys design things, I'm sure you would come up with something super...

answered on 29 Jan 2010, 09:25 PM

One of the key things that we face is that we have metadata that controls everything about the field. Everything from the display name, read-only or not, and type of edit (date, textbox, numeric, combobox, etc). It would be nice to be able to manually add fields to the grid with something like:

Field f = new Field(name, displayName);

f.ReadOnly=false;

f.ControlType = Enum.Combobox;

f.ValueRange = ArrayOfValuesForCombo;

f.OriginalValue = 'Some Value';

f.Value = 'Some Value';

propGrid.Fields.Add(f);

Also be able to get capture event when user changes a value on a field. And also would like to be able to get all changed fields that showed OriginalValue & CurrentValue. Something like:

foreach(Field f in propGrid.ChangedFields)

{

//Save value back to object

}

//Save object

I know this may be a little different than most uses, but this would definitely set your control apart if you could make this easier to do.

-LK

answered on 06 Feb 2010, 02:40 AM

I've been waiting for this control as well, both in Silverlight and in WPF. Glad to hear that it is in your plans. It would be nice if you would consider supporting the attributes defined in the System.ComponentModel namespace that affect the functionality of the WinForms PropertyGrid (such as DisplayNameAttribute, EditorAttribute, DescriptionAttribute, CategoryAttribute, etc.). Note that these attributes are defined in the System.dll assembly, so they are not specific to WinForms, and so make sense in a WPF frontend as well. I'm sure many development teams already have several of their data classes tagged with these attributes, so having a PropertyGrid in WPF that obeys them would be a treat.

Thanks,
~Steve

answered on 28 Oct 2011, 07:48 PM

I downloaded the latest version (Q2 2011 SP1) to test out PropertyGrid. I am not able to specify multiple properties. Is it supported?
For example, the following works:

<telerik:RadPropertyGrid Name="detailChartPropertyGrid"

Grid.Column="0"

AutoGeneratePropertyDefinitions="False">

<telerik:RadPropertyGrid.PropertyDefinitions>

<telerik:PropertyDefinition DisplayName="Margin"

Description ="Gets/sets the margin."

Binding="{Binding Path=Margin}" />

</telerik:RadPropertyGrid.PropertyDefinitions>

</telerik:RadPropertyGrid>

BUT this does not work:

<telerik:RadPropertyGrid Name="detailChartPropertyGrid"

Grid.Column="0"

AutoGeneratePropertyDefinitions="False">

<telerik:RadPropertyGrid.PropertyDefinitions>

<telerik:PropertyDefinition DisplayName="Margin.Left"

Description ="Gets/sets the left of margin."

Binding="{Binding Path=Margin.Left}" />

</telerik:RadPropertyGrid.PropertyDefinitions>

</telerik:RadPropertyGrid>

Thanks.

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