Extend Last Column

[Simon Woods]

Hi

I'm just starting to learn the silverlight gridview control. Coming from a winforms background I was used to setting a property ExtendLastColumn=True and the rightmost column would resize automatically to fill the width of the grid which remains after all other columns have been added.

I'm looking to emulate that sort of behavior with the GridView control, but I'm struggling to work out how to implement it.

Any pointers or tips would be very gratefully received

Many thx

Simon

[Vlad]

Hi Simon,

You can set Width="*" for the last column to achieve this.

Regards,
Vlad
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[Simon Woods]

Excellent. Many thx

[Murray]

Would there be a way to make this a property of the gridview itself? This would be great for autogenerating columns.

[Maya]

Hello Murray,

Generally, you can set ColumnWidth property of the grid to "*", which will make the columns to be sized so that all the available space is taken. Another possible way to go  would be to handle AutoGeneratingColumn and set the Width property of the column you want.

Greetings,
Maya
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[Murray]

That won't do what we needed but I found a visual workaround. I modified the template for the grid cell and header cell. By default you have the left border at zero and right border at 1px. I made the left 1px and right 0px. That way you still have borders between columns but the end column has no right border and visually looks like it fills the available space. I highly recommend you do the same modification to your template to help calm the posts I mentioned above. Thanks

[Maya]

Hello Simon,

I am really glad that you have found a workaround appropriate for your exact scenario. We will consider your suggestion, but changing style and templates is breaking change which is not something we would rather to do. Nevertheless, thank you for your feedback and the solution you provided to the community. 

Regards,
Maya
the Telerik team