Hi-lighting a Grid Row

[Jorge Gonzalez]

Hello,

   I am appending an entry to a grid that contains several hundred items. I use ScrollIntoView to scroll the grid to where the item was added but I have not figured out how to hi-light (select) the new entry. The example at this site on how to do this uses constructs that are no longer supported by the latest release. The grid has the SelectAll and UnSelectAll commands so there has to be some command that selects only one row.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Rossen Hristov]

Hi Jorge Gonzalez,

You should set the SelectedItem property of the grid to the data item you want to be selected, in your case the new entry.

For example:

public MainPage()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    this.clubsGrid.ItemsSource = Club.GetClubs();

    this.clubsGrid.DataLoaded += new System.EventHandler<System.EventArgs>(clubsGrid_DataLoaded);
}

void clubsGrid_DataLoaded(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    this.clubsGrid.SelectedItem = ((IEnumerable<Club>)this.clubsGrid.ItemsSource).Where(c => c.Name == "Chelsea").FirstOrDefault();
}

I hope this helps. Let me know if there are problems.

Regards,
Ross
the Telerik team

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[Jorge Gonzalez]

Thanks Ross,

   That worked. 

I did this:

this.gridname.SelectedItem = this.gridname.Items[<location of the new item I just added>];

[Jorge Gonzalez]

Hello,

    I also had to add this line so the little arrow that points to the current row is set at the current row:

this.gridname.CurrentItem= this.gridname.Items[<location of the new item I just added>];