Get Source GridView from RowElement

[Akhil Raj]

hi ,
   i am using RAdGridview in my windows form. I implemented forcolor change in rowformatting event. I have 2 gridview in my form. So i just think to generalize the row formatting to work both gridview. But according to gridview name i just change the forcolor. How can i get gridview name in the rowformatting event

[Emanuel Varga]

Hello Akhil,

I have prepared here two options in order to get the row sender, one is uglier but more precise and the other one is cleaner but it is slower, you can chose for yourself.

void radGridView1_RowFormatting(object sender, Telerik.WinControls.UI.RowFormattingEventArgs e)
        {
            // 1. Going trough the hierarchy from the rowElement up to the grid
            var grid =
                ((Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridVisualElement)(e.RowElement.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent)).
                    GridControl;

            //2. Searching in the rows collection for a grid if it has that rowInfo
            if (radGridView1.Rows.Contains(e.RowElement.RowInfo))
            {
                //this is the grid
            }
            else
            {
                //this is the grid
            }
        }

Hope this answers your question,
Best Regards,
Emanuel Varga

[erwin]

Akhil,

I think registering the same event handler with two (or more) grids leads to hard-to-maintain code. I would factor the action out into   a function and call it from two event handlers, something like this:

void radGridView1_RowFormatting(object sender, Telerik.WinControls.UI.RowFormattingEventArgs e)
{
        ChangeCellForeColor(radGridView1, e, Color.Red)
}
void radGridView2_RowFormatting(object sender, Telerik.WinControls.UI.RowFormattingEventArgs e)
{
        ChangeCellForeColor(radGridView2, e, Color.Black)
}

void ChangeCellForeColor(RadGridView grid, Telerik.WinControls.UI.RowFormattingEventArgs e,Color col)
{
        .....
}

Regards
Erwin

[Jack]

Emanuel, thank you for your suggestion.

Erwin, I agree. It will be much simpler to use two different events. 

Akhil, you can do this by using the GridControl property of GridRowElement which is accessible through the event sender. Please consider the sample below:

void radGridView1_RowFormatting(object sender, RowFormattingEventArgs e)
{
    GridRowElement row = (GridRowElement)sender;
    RadGridView grid = row.GridControl;
    string name = grid.Name;
    //...
}

I hope this helps.

Greetings,
Jack
the Telerik team

[Akhil Raj]

jk thanks admin i try this...this is simple one