Edit mode for entire row (all cells in a row at once)

[Marc]

Per default RadGridView shows the cell edit element only for the currently edited cell. But I need all cells in the currently edited row to show their edit element at the same time. In other words, I need to switch into edit mode for an entire row, not a single cell.

How can I achieve this?

As a side note: Since I need to create view and edit elements dynamically I currently inherit from GridViewBoundColumnBase and override CreateCellElement and CreateCellEditElement. Anything else I can do here to make the above working? Or maybe I have to inherit from RadGridView and genereate custom row containers which help me here?

Thank you,
Stephan

[Pavel Pavlov]

Hello Stephan,

This is not supported by RadGridView as only one cell may have the focus , be in edit mode and trigger the editing events as described in the docs.

A descent hack would be to replace the TextBoxes with TextBlocks in the cell template. This means to use the CellTemplate property of the column and assign it to a data template containing a TextBox bound to the relevant property of your business object two way.

In case you decide to go that direction  let me know so I can assist you further.

Greetings,
Pavel Pavlov
the Telerik team

[Bharat]

I cannot understand what you are trying to say. Can you please explain your Hack in more detailed approach.