ListView Detail Data Binding Hide Column

[Nick]

Hello,

I am experimenting with your controls before we buy them and have a question. I have a class (for sake of demo I have simplified it) that I am binding to a RadListView via a binding list. Can I prevent the Badge column from appearing in the list view? The listview is actually used to display many different types of data so I would prefer a method that did not involve me manually hiding the column.

 Public Class Visitor
        Friend Sub New(name As String, arrival As Date, department As String, badge As Integer)
            _Name = name
            _ArrivalTime = arrival
            _Department = department
            _Badge = badge
        End Sub

        Private _Name As String
        Public ReadOnly Property Name As String
            Get
                Return _Name
            End Get
        End Property

        Private _ArrivalTime As Date
        Public ReadOnly Property ArrivalTime As Date
            Get
                Return _ArrivalTime
            End Get
        End Property

        Private _Department As String

        Public ReadOnly Property Department As String
            Get
                Return _Department
            End Get
        End Property

        Private _Badge As Integer
        Public ReadOnly Property Badge As Integer
            Get
                Return _Badge
            End Get
        End Property
    End Class

Thank You.

[Nick]

I should note that I do need to bind the badge column in certain circumstances so  <System.ComponentModel.Browsable(False)> does not meet my needs.

[Ivan Todorov]

Hi Nick,

Thank you for contacting us.

You can handle the ColumnCreating event to set the Visible property of each column you need to hide:

Private Sub radListView1_ColumnCreating(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ListViewColumnCreatingEventArgs) Handles radListView1.ColumnCreating
            If e.Column.FieldName = "Badge" Then
                e.Column.Visible = False
            End If
        End Sub

This is also demonstrated in the First Look example of RadListView in our Examples application so you can refer to it for additional details.

I hope I was able to help. Do not hesitate to write back if you have any further questions.

Kind regards,
Ivan Todorov
the Telerik team