Columns Collection

[M]

I am fairly new to WPF and Telerik controls for WPF.  I have been searching google, these forums, and more to try and figure out what I believe should be easy enough to do.  I would like to set up a RadGridView to have a list of columns in a "style" or resource so I can use it on multiple pages.  Here is an example of what I tried to do:

<Style x:Key="myGrid" TargetType="{x:Type telerik:RadGridView}">

<Setter Property="Template">

<Setter.Value>

<ControlTemplate TargetType="telerik:RadGridView">

<AdornerDecorator>

<Border Name="PART_MasterGridContainer" Grid.Row="1"  BorderThickness="1" Background="White" BorderBrush="#FF9EB6CE">

<telerik:GridViewItemsControl x:Name="PART_RootItemsControl"

IsHierarchyRoot="{TemplateBinding IsHierarchyRoot}"

ParentRow="{TemplateBinding ParentRow}"

ScrollMode ="{TemplateBinding ScrollMode}"

ShowColumnHeaders="{TemplateBinding ShowColumnHeaders}"

ShowGroupPanel="{TemplateBinding ShowGroupPanel}" />

</Border>

</AdornerDecorator>

</ControlTemplate>

</Setter.Value>

</Setter>

<Setter Property="ColumnsWidthMode" Value="Fill" />

<Setter Property="Width" Value="Auto" />

<Setter Property="Height" Value="Auto" />

<Setter Property="VerticalGridlinesVisibility" Value="Hidden" />

<Setter Property="telerik:RadGridView.Columns">

<Setter.Value>

<telerik:GridViewColumnCollection>

<telerik:GridViewDataColumn DataType="{x:Null}" HeaderText="Image" UniqueName="ImageName" IsGroupable="False" IsSortable="False" Width="50" CellStyle="{StaticResource ImageCell}" />

<telerik:GridViewDataColumn DataType="{x:Null}" HeaderText="ColA" UniqueName="ColA" IsGroupable="False" IsSortable="False" Width="50" />

<telerik:GridViewDataColumn DataType="{x:Null}" HeaderText="ColB" UniqueName="ColB" IsGroupable="False" IsSortable="False" Width="50" />

<telerik:GridViewDataColumn DataType="{x:Null}" HeaderText="ColC" UniqueName="ColC" IsGroupable="False" IsSortable="False" Width="50" />

<telerik:GridViewDataColumn DataType="{x:Null}" HeaderText="ColD" UniqueName="ColD" IsGroupable="False" IsSortable="False" Width="50" />

</telerik:GridViewColumnCollection>

</Setter.Value>

</Setter>

</Style>

but the "Columns" property is read only.  I tried searching for ways to add items to collections within XAML, but I could not find any ways to do this.  In my mind, this seems like it should be fairly easy to acomplish, but it never truly is :P

[Vlad]

Hi M,

I don't believe that this is possible. Maybe the best approach will be to create a user control with desired grid settings and reuse this user control in your application.

Kind regards,
Vlad
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