GridViewCell implicit styling?

[Michael Ruddick]

With the Silverlight 4 build, should the RadGridView's elements be able to be styled using implicit styling?

I'm trying to set a style for all GridViewCells so they use a template that gives no visual indication that a specific cell is selected - only the entire row appears to be selected.  In my Styles.xaml resource dictionary, I have the following:

    <Style TargetType="telerik:GridViewCell">
        <Setter Property="Template" Value="{StaticResource CustomGridViewCellTemplate}"/>
        <Setter Property="Padding" Value="5,0,3,0"/>
        <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="{StaticResource GridLinesFill}"/>
        <Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="0,0,1,0" />
        <Setter Property="VerticalContentAlignment" Value="Center" />
        <Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch" />
    </Style>

As far as I understand, this should apply the style to all GridViewCells in my application - but it's not working.

I have verified that the Styles.xaml file is correctly referenced in my App.xaml file - my other styles are working fine.  Also, if I give this style a key and reference it as a static resource on each of my GridViewDataColumns' CellStyle property, it works fine.

Any suggestions or ideas as to why the implicit styling is not working here?

Thanks!

MIchael

[Kalin Milanov]

Hi Michael Ruddick,

Unfortunately implicit styling of our controls currently works only for the default theme (Office Black). Currently we are working on improving our style manager to handle the rest of the themes as well and we are hoping we can have it up and running as expected some time after Q2. Until then you will have to resort to old school application of styles and templates.

Best wishes,
Kalin Milanov
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[Jeff]

Hi,

Can you please provide an update in regards to this issue, and the overall state of support for implicit styling.  We would like to move away from our custom theme management.  Thanks.

Cheers,
Jeff Boggs

[Milan]

Hi Michael Ruddick,

There are no changes regarding our theming mechanism and support for implicit styles. As my colleague has indicated we will try to introduce improvement for Q2 at the earliest. 

All the best,
Milan
the Telerik team

[Valeriu]

So - almost 1 year later and after 2 big releases - any news on this feature (implicit styling)?
May be new timeframes?

[Nikolay]

Hello Valeriu,

It's in the works. We hope the first results will start appearing with Q1 next year.
 
Greetings,
Nick
the Telerik team