[Solved] Input Masking By Column

[Philip]

Hello,

I have a question today in regards to creating a mask for input for cells in a grid dependent upon column. For example, for a cell edited in the "Name" column would allow anything, but only 50 characters, but a cell in the "Zip Code" column allowing only 5 sequential numbers. This could, theoretically, be done through management of CellEditEnded events, but I'd prefer to mask the entered text on the fly, not after the use has already entered the text.

I am aware of things such a masked text boxes, but have no experience with them. Is there a way to implement this feature into Telerik's grids, whether by an already implemented feature, a template, or some other coded method?

Thanks to everyone for their time,

Philip Coffey

[Vlad]

Hi Philip,

You can put desired MaskedTextBox with desired settings directly in the column CellEditTemplate. Please check this demo:
http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#GridView/CellEditTemplate

Kind regards,
Vlad
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[Philip]

Thank you, that has provided the majority of what I need.

If it would be possible, however, could you give an example of how to create and set a column's CellEditTemplate programatically? The requirements for our project require a large volume of dynamically created content, which has proven easier to code for us in c# than .xaml.

Thanks again,
Philip

[Pavel Pavlov]

Hi Philip,

Of course ,

Here is some sample code :

private void SetStyleToColumns()
        {
            Style customColumnStyle = this.LayoutRoot.Resources["CustomCellEditTemplate"] as Style;
            foreach (var column in RadGridView1.Columns)
            {
                column.CellEditTemplate = customColumnStyle;
            }
        }

This code assumes that the style is defined in the resources of the LayoutRoot element ( typically a Grid).

You may call this method immediately  after set the ItemsSource property of the RadGridView , or after you have set the columns property.

Greetings,

Pavel Pavlov
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