CopyPropertiesFrom question

[paul orsillo]

Are there specific circumstances that determines if CopyPropertiesFrom is called or not?

I have an override in my custom editor cell (GridViewBoundColumnBase) and it is never called.

the override looks like this:

  public override void CopyPropertiesFrom(GridViewColumn source) {
            base.CopyPropertiesFrom(source);
            FormatterActionEditorColumn column = source as FormatterActionEditorColumn;
            if (column != null)
                this.ActionDefinition = column.ActionDefinition;
        }
       
Thank you,
Paul

[Yavor Georgiev]

Hello paul orsillo,

 CopyPropertiesFrom's purpose is to assist in cloning columns. Though not an often-seen approach, we clone the columns of one GridView to another in our WPF Printing demo to create a print-friendly version of the grid.

Though it's not compulsory to do so, you might want to override CopyPropertiesFrom as you have done, because in the future this method may be called with greater frequency.

Best wishes,
Yavor Georgiev
the Telerik team