[Solved] How can I get columns to expand

[Jerry Kurata]

Hi,

When my grid is initially created it only has a few columns.  We want the width of the grid to be fixed.  However, the minimum size for these columns is rather small to there is quite a bit of white space on the right edge of the grid.  This white space looks like an unlabeled column on the right edge.  I would like to have the right most column expand to fill this space. How can I accomplish this? 

I tried width auto and it had no effect.

[Yavor Georgiev]

Hi Jerry Kurata,

 You need to set the width of the last column to '*', that way it will take up all the remaining space.

Regards,
Yavor Georgiev
the Telerik team

[Jerry Kurata]

Yavor,

This seems to do just the opposite.  It shrinks the width of the column leaving in more white space.

Here is the XAML

               <telerik:RadGridView Name="gridTest" Height="190" MinWidth="500">
                </telerik:RadGridView>
                <Button Content="Adjust Grid" Name="btnAdjGrid" Click="btnAdjGrid_Click" />


Here is the code that creates the data for the grid:

 People = new List<Person>();
            People.Add(new Person()
                {
                    Name = "jerry",
                    Address = "123 Main street",
                    Note = "Note 1"
                });

            People.Add(new Person()
            {
                Name = "Deb",
                Address = "3345 Oak Lant",
                Note = "Note 2"
            });

            this.gridTest.ItemsSource = People;

When the button is pressed this code executes:

this.gridTest.Columns[2].Width = '*';

[Yavor Georgiev]

Hi Jerry Kurata,

 In code-behind you need to do it like this:

this.radGridView1.Columns[1].Width = new GridViewLength(1, GridViewLengthUnitType.Star);

Sincerely yours,
Yavor Georgiev
the Telerik team