grid with rowspans in data and colspans in headers

[TelDev]

Hi,

I want to create a grid as attached in the image.
As you can see I have rowspan set to first 2 columns of the grid. I am setting the rowspan by comparing the column value in row and previous row, and by combining the rows. So i am able to achieve the first part.
columns country, currency, col3,col4,col5 are declared statically in aspx page. so far so good.
I have random number of contact columns (in turn divided into 3 columns). I want to add these columns to Grid in code-behind. I checd in the documentation of grid and it says

RadGrid does not support mixing declarative grid columns with grid columns added dynamically at runtime. You should either create all the columns in the grid programmatically, or else define them all in the ASPX file.

How to further build the Grid?

Thanks
Teldev

[Shinu]

Hello,

One suggestion is to create the all columns dynamically. The folllwing help article and demo will help you to achieve this.

Create Telerik RadGrid entirely in the code behind.
OnPageInit.
OnPageLoad.

Thanks,
Shinu.

[TelDev]

Thanks for the reply Shinu,

Actually I hvae many static columns(That too GridTemplateColumns). So i am looking some way of combing static and dynamic creation of columns.

[TelDev]

Can anyone from Telerik Team help me.

[Iana Tsolova]

Hi Teldev,

As you already found mixing static and dynamic columns is not suggested. In your case I would also suggest that you create the entire grid in code behind, on Page_Init. Or, if you have no template columns, you can define the grid columns on Page_Load.
Other than this, you can try leaving the declarative columns as they are, and add the dynamic columns on Page_Load. But as this is not supported scenario you should not expect the grid to work properly.

Greetings,
Iana
the Telerik team