[Solved] Better XAML GridView controller?

[Mikael]

GridView seems to be one of the most popular XAML controls but unfortunately it's little lacking. For example:

• There's no built-in support for differently sized items. The developer must inherit the GridView to implement this feature.
• The data virtualization doesn't work if the data is grouped.
• The semantic zoom, data virtualization and data grouping don't play well together
• The control has performance problems: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/da-DK/winappswithcsharp/thread/6c56ad90-12a8-4dd9-a07e-19620e6785ae & http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithcsharp/thread/3d2eb525-6d4c-4445-bc84-e1484369a4a9

Maybe Telerik could step in and build a better GridView control, similar to the WP7's DataBoundListBox?

[Ivaylo Gergov]

Hi, Mikael

Thank you for contacting us and for your valuable feedback.

For the next release we are mostly concentrated in implementing a DataGrid component and we will do our best to overcome all the limitations of the built-in GridView component as well as to provide many new unique features. So, stay tuned :)

I hope this information is useful. Let me know if I can assist you any further.

 

All the best,
Ivaylo Gergov
the Telerik team

[Nikolay]

Hi Mikael,
 
Now we have a public Ideas and Feedback portal. We'd love to see your ideas logged into the portal so that our community can follow and vote for them. In addition, you will be able to follow the status of your suggestions. You can access the feedback portal at:

http://feedback.telerik.com/windows-8 

Regards,
Nick
the Telerik team

[Mikael]

I've submitted the idea to the portal: http://feedback.telerik.com/Project/109/Feedback/Details/954-better-xaml-gridview-controller