How to Get GridViewColumn Name

[Elke]

Hi I am looking for how to retrieve a GridViewColumn Name from the codebehind.

In my code we were using a conditional to check if the Header matched a certain value, but we are adding tooltips to the column header so now I'm using the following format to set the header, which causes my conditional to never find the column header.

if (e.GridViewDataControl.Columns[i].Header.ToString().Equals("Color"))

is what I was using

The xaml looks like this:

<telerikgrid:GridViewDataColumn Width="50" HeaderCellStyle="{StaticResource GridViewHeaderCellStyle1}" x:Name="colColor">
  <telerikgrid:GridViewDataColumn.Header>
    <TextBlock x:Name="txtColor" Text="Color"/>
  </telerikgrid:GridViewDataColumn.Header>
</telerikgrid:GridViewDataColumn>

Can I access the column by the name?

[Chris]

You could use the UniqueName property like this:

if (e.GridViewDataControl.Columns[i].UniqueName.Equals("Color"))

and

<telerikgrid:GridViewDataColumn Width="50" HeaderCellStyle="{StaticResource GridViewHeaderCellStyle1}" x:Name="colColor" UniqueName="Color">
  <telerikgrid:GridViewDataColumn.Header>
    <TextBlock x:Name="txtColor" Text="Color"/>
  </telerikgrid:GridViewDataColumn.Header>
</telerikgrid:GridViewDataColumn>

- Chris

[Elke]

This works fantastically, thanks!