Calling columns by public column name

[konrad]

Hi,

Creating columns in manual way (using designer) make them only visible in Designer.cs file, because declaration is in InitializeComponent() function.
How to avoid that, so for example ill able to call cell value like that:

GridView.Rows[4].Cells[myColumn.name].Value

[Plamen]

Hi Dominik,

Due to certain specifics of the Property Builder architecture, exposing the columns' declarations globally is not a trivial task and it would require major changes in the design-time tool. Therefore, I am not able to preovide any specific time frame in which such a change would be made.

In this situation, I can only suggest associating the design-time created columns with globally declared variables only once and then use these variables later whenever needed:

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    GridViewTextBoxColumn firstNameCol;
    GridViewTextBoxColumn lastNameCol;
    GridViewTextBoxColumn addressCol;

    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        firstNameCol = (GridViewTextBoxColumn)this.radGridView1.Columns["column1"];
        lastNameCol = (GridViewTextBoxColumn)this.radGridView1.Columns["column2"];
        addressCol = (GridViewTextBoxColumn)this.radGridView1.Columns["column3"];
    }
}

Let me know if you have additional questions or suggestions.

Regards,
Plamen
the Telerik team

[konrad]

Thank you for your reply.

For now, this is a satisfactory solution.