Auto-complete with WinForms GridView

[Ron]

Are there any examples for doing an auto-complete with the WinForms GridView?  If not, is this something that can easily be done with the WinForm GridView?

[Dwight]

Hello R D,

Thank you for your question.

We would be glad to help you, but we will need more details on the feature you request.

We do have an example in our WinForms Demos --> RadGridView -> Column Types, which demonstrates different kinds of columns. Check the look-up column. Is this what you need? If not, could you describe in detail what are you after? Thanks in advance.

 
Sincerely yours,
Evtim
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[Ron]

Thanks for your reply.  Essentially, what we need is an auto-complete combobox within a grid.  Can this easily be done with the WinForm GridView?

Thanks again,
Ron

[Peter]

Thank you for the additional details, Ron. Although RadComboBox supports multi mode auto-complete, this feature is not yet available within the grid. We will do our best to add it in our next release, scheduled for the middle of September.


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[Murugesan Sivathanu]

Hi,

Is this feature available now? Autosuggestbox  in Gridview?

Muru

[Peter]

Hi Murugesan Sivathanu,

Thank you for the question.

We replaced the old RadComboBox editor in RadGridView with the new RadDropDown editor that fully supports auto complete-mode.

I hope this helps.

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Peter
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[Murugesan Sivathanu]

Dear Sir,

Thank you so much for your response. I am not able to find any sample or demo in the support forum which will show how to use raddropdown editor in Datagridview in winforms. Could you please send me sample code?

Thank you

Regards,
Muru

[Svett]

Hi Murugesan,

You should subscribe to the CellEditorInitialized event where you can enable the auto-complete mode of RadDropDownListEditor:

void radGridView1_CellEditorInitialized(object sender, GridViewCellEventArgs e)
{
    RadDropDownListEditor listEditor = this.radGridView1.ActiveEditor as RadDropDownListEditor;

    if (listEditor == null)
    {
        return;
    }

    RadDropDownListEditorElement editorElement = listEditor.EditorElement as RadDropDownListEditorElement;
    editorElement.AutoCompleteMode = AutoCompleteMode.SuggestAppend;
    editorElement.DropDownStyle = Telerik.WinControls.RadDropDownStyle.DropDown;
}

You can use this documentation article as a reference to the auto-complete mode in RadDropwDownList.

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Svett
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[shinu rag]

HI Svett .
1 doubt about RadMultiColumnComboBox in Gridview(ver 9.0).
i set AutoCompleteMode property as AutoCompleteMode.SuggestAppend, but its not working....

here is my code...

private void GridViewSample_CellEditorInitialized(object sender, GridViewCellEventArgs e)
        {
            RadMultiColumnComboBoxElement multiComboElement = this.GridViewSample.ActiveEditor as RadMultiColumnComboBoxElement;
       if (multiComboElement != null)
       {
            multiComboElement.AutoCompleteMode = AutoCompleteMode.SuggestAppend;
              multiComboElement.AutoSizeDropDownToBestFit = true;
                multiComboElement.AutoFilter = true;
                multiComboElement.DropDownSizingMode = SizingMode.UpDownAndRightBottom;

                //multiComboElement.EditorControl.MasterGridViewTemplate.BestFitColumns();

                if (multiComboElement.EditorControl.MasterGridViewTemplate.FilterExpressions.Count == 0)
                {
                    FilterExpression autoFilter = new FilterExpression("Name", FilterExpression.BinaryOperation.AND,
                        GridKnownFunction.StartsWith, GridFilterCellElement.ParameterName);
                    autoFilter.Parameters.Add(GridFilterCellElement.ParameterName, string.Empty);
                    multiComboElement.EditorControl.MasterGridViewTemplate.FilterExpressions.Add(autoFilter);

                }
            }
        }

i won't to show the data in the current typing row.. but can see the data like SuggestAppend mode...

thanks..
shinu

[Svett]

Hello Ron,

RadMultiColumnComboBox does not support different auto-complete modes. The property AutoCompleteMode appears in the control, because it is inherited from the base popup control used in RadControls for Winforms.

Kind regards,
Svett
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