By default, RadGridView offers row hot tracking functionality which is controlled by the TableElement.EnableHotTracking property. You can easily add a functionality for column hot tracking using the RadGridView.MouseMove and the RadGridView.ViewCellFormatting events. Here is a sample code snippet, demonstrating how to achieve it:
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