Scrolling to previous selection

[Sean]

Hi, I have a RadGridView that is bound to a DataTable.
I refresh the data binding every 30 seconds.
Currently before I refresh I store the currently selected rows and reselect them on rebinding to make the user experience as seamless as possible.
This works fine until I have enough items to cause it to scroll. When I have items selected at the bottom of the list, on refresh the selection disappears even though I have it added to the selectedrows collection, and the scrollbar is at the top with the item out of view. When I manually scroll down, I see that my previous selection has disappeared.
Also I tried using the code below as suggested in the forum to scroll to my selected row.

int visualRowsCount = this.radGridView1.GridElement.VisualRows.Count;

this.radGridView1.GridElement.ScrollToRow(indexToScroll - visualRowsCount + 3);

But my visualrows.count is always returned as zero. And when I call the ScrollToRow method, it always gives an outofbounds exception.
I am using the binding below where docs is a DataTable.

this.gridDocs.MasterGridViewTemplate.Columns.Clear();
this.gridDocs.MasterGridViewTemplate.DataSource = docs;

Am I doing something wrong here?

[Jack]

Hi Sean,

This is because the rows contained in the SelectedRows collection are valid only before changing the data source. You should save the row indexes instead. Please take a look at the code snippet below:

this.radGridView1.GridElement.BeginUpdate();
List<int> selectedRowsIndexes = new List<int>();
foreach (GridViewDataRowInfo row in this.radGridView1.SelectedRows)
{
    selectedRowsIndexes.Add(this.radGridView1.Rows.IndexOf(row));
}
this.radGridView1.DataSource = GetDataSource();
foreach (int index in selectedRowsIndexes)
{
    this.radGridView1.Rows[index].IsSelected = true;
}
this.radGridView1.GridElement.EndUpdate();

I hope this helps. Should you have any other questions, I will be glad to help.

All the best,
Jack
the Telerik team

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