Change Row Background After Sort

[Steven]

Hi there,

I would like to change the row background of the first 5 rows after the data on the grid has been sorted but I am having a couple of issues.

I hook into the Sorted event and get the rows from the grid and I loop through the first five and set the background. This almost works but it only changes the backgrounds of every second row. I think that the AlternateRowBackground set on the grid is overwriting the value I set.

Another issue I am facing is that there are two ways in which I sort the grid. The above approach only works when the user sorts by clicking on a column. However the Sorted event doesn't seem to fire when I add a SortDescriptor in the code-behind and I'm not sure why.

Is there something obvious that I am missing? Or is there a better approach to achieve what I am looking for?

Thanks,

Steven

[Dimitrina]

Hello Steven,

Actually the Sorting event is an UI event and it will be invoked only when the Sorting is done by the user clicking on the column's header.

To achieve your goal I would suggest you to apply a RowStyleSelector and return a "colored" RowStyle for the first 5 items in the GridView's Items collection. You can check this help article for a reference on how to define a RowStyleSelector.

Kind regards,
Didie
the Telerik team

[Steven]

The style selector works perfectly.

Thanks,

Steven