end-user customize visible columns

[Marcel]

Before I write new code, I wonder if it already exists? My end-user wants the ability to select the columns that are to be visible in the grid from a popup list of columns with check boxes next to each column name. They select the columns they want to see.

Does Telerik Silverlight offer something like this OOB?
Thank you

[Vlad]

Hello,

 There is no such built-in functionality however we have an example which may help you in your case. 

Regards,
Vlad
the Telerik team

[Josh]

We were easily able to implement something similar to this with the following:

<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding ElementName=PART_grid, Path=Columns}" MinHeight="150" MaxHeight="150">
     <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
          <DataTemplate>
              <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                   <CheckBox IsChecked="{Binding Path=IsVisible, Mode=TwoWay}" />
                   <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Header.Text}"  />
               </StackPanel>
          </DataTemplate>
     </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

It's worth noting that the all of our headers are TextBlocks. 

[Marcel]

Hi Josh, Vlad

Vlad, the example you showed was good but the code is abstracted away. Can you provide the code?

Thanks Josh - it's working. My listbox was not showing the column names - I had to remove '.Text' from the pasted line.

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Header.Text}" 

[Vlad]

Hello,

 I'm not sure I understand. Have you checked the code of the demo? You can click the "code" button in the top right part of the demo. 

Greetings,
Vlad
the Telerik team

[Marcel]

Hi Vlad,
You were right - all the code was there and I got it working on my end. This is a very nice solution. THANK YOU.

For anyone intertested, I couldn't find a way to copy the code from the online example, BUT the code is available on your hard drive in the demos\examples folders.