Some questions about radgridview

[Anders]

Hi

I just discovered it's not possible to do what I originally wanted, so Im just going to tell what exactly I want to accomplish

1. Fill the content of a radgridview to the edges so I don't have empty space between the tablecontent and the tableborders, here's an ugly ascii representation
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|[column][column](space space space)|
|[cell......][cell......](space space space)|
|[cell......][cell......](space space space)|
|[cell......][cell......](space space space)|
|(space space space space space sp)|
|(space space space space space sp)|
|(space space space space space sp)|
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
instead I want the columns to stretch and empty rows be displayed instead of a white background, kinda like this
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|[column got stretched][column stretch]|
|[Cell stretched with it..][this cell too.....]|
|[Cell stretched with it..][this cell too.....]|
|[Cell with no data, it ju][st looks like....]| (...there's a row but all the cells have a white background)
|[Cell with no data, it ju][st looks like....]|
|[Cell with no data, it ju][st looks like....]|
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

2. I have a list of custom data objects (List<someObject>) basically I want it to automatically figure out that some properties goes to specific cells and others aren't shown, so if I have.

public class SomeObject
{
public string showthisString;
public DateTime showThisDate;
public int showThisInt;
public string dontshowthisstring;
public decimal showThisDec;
public int dontshowthisint;
}

and I create some columns I want to map showthisString to the column "MyAwesomeColumn" and showThisInt to "AwesomePoints". I am expecting code like this

public void InSomeMethod()
{
  DataTextColumn AwesomeCol = new DataTextColumn("UniquelyAwesome","who's awesome?") //uniquename, headerText
  AwesomeCol.readOnly=true; //if I wanted it readonly that is, just to display some sort of functionality change
  RadGridView grid; //for code block highlighting
  grid.Columns.Add(AwesomeCol)
  grid.Link.Link("showThisString","UniquelyAwesome");//when databinding it will find the showthisString property and map it to the column that has a uniquename of UniquelyAwesome
}

.net 4.0 and latest C# vs 2010

[Nikolay]

Hello Anders,

RadGridView is capable of stretching the columns to fill the entire RadGridView estate area. This is done through the AutoSizeColumnsMode setting:

this.radGridView1.AutoSizeColumnsMode = Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode.Fill;

As to the rows, RadGridView is not capable of showing empty rows that would fill the area where no real data rows are displayed.

In regards to your second enquiry about mapping columns, first I would like to let you know that RadGridView can automatically create columns and then you can just hide some of them using the following approach:

this.radGridView1.Columns.Remove(this.radGridView1.Columns["showthisString"]);

or you can just hide the column:

this.radGridView1.Columns["showthisString"].IsVisible = false;

In case you really want to create the columns on your own, you should first set the AutoGenerateColumns property to false (it is true by default):

this.radGridView1.AutoGenerateColumns = false;

Further, when creating the columns manually, you should set their FieldName in order to map them to the datasource properties:

GridViewTextBoxColumn myAwesomeColumn = new GridViewTextBoxColumn("UniquelyAwesome", "showthisString");
myAwesomeColumn.HeaderText = "who's awesome?";
this.radGridView1.Columns.Add(myAwesomeColumn);

I hope this helps.

All the best,
Nikolay
the Telerik team