Commonly Used Properties

Updated on Sep 30, 2025

RadGridView

Property	Description
ShowColumnHeaders	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the column headers are visible.
MasterView	Gets the top-most GridViewInfo level of the grid. This class contains logical information about visual presentation of flat tabular data in RadGridView.
ChildRows	This collection contains the Rows that currently visible in the grid. More information is available here
IsCurrentRowDirty	Gets a value indicating whether the current row has changes that are not committed.
StandardTab	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the TAB key moves the focus to the next control in the tab order rather than moving focus to the next cell in the control.
EnterKeyMode	Gets or sets value specifying the behavior when the user presses Enter.
NewRowEnterKeyMode	Gets or sets value specifying the behavior when the user presses Enter while adding new row.
AutoSizeRows	Gets or sets a value indicating whether row height in a RadGridView will expand for multiline cell text.

GridViewTemplate

Property	Description
SelectNewRowAsCurrent	This property controls if the new row will be made current if there are no other row in the grid.
IsUpdating	Determines whether the template is in a Begin/End update block.
SelectLastAddedRow	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the last added row in the RadGridView DataSource will be selected by the control.
NewRowText	Gets or sets the text displayed in the new row. If this values is null or empty the text from the localization provider will be used.
ShowFilterCellOperatorText	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the filter operator text should be shown in the filter cell.
HorizontalScrollState	Gets or sets the display state of grid horizontal scrollbars.
VerticalScrollState	Gets or sets the display state of grid vertical scrollbars.
AllowDragToGroup	Gets or sets a value indicating whether user can drag a column header to grouping panel.
AllowColumnReorder	Gets or sets a value indicating whether user can reorder columns.
AllowRowResize	Gets or sets a value indicating whether user can resize a row.
AutoUpdateObjectRelationalSource	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the underlying source in Object-Relational binding should be automatically updated.
Caption	Gets or sets the caption text.
EnableAlternatingRowColor	Gets or sets a value indicating whether alternating row color is enabled.
HierarchyDataProvider	Gets or sets the hierarchy data provider.
SummaryRowGroupHeaders	Gets the collection containing the summary items placed in the group header.
SummaryRowsBottom	Gets the collection containing summary rows placed at the bottom of each DataGroup.
SummaryRowsTop	Gets the collection containing summary rows placed on top of each DataGroup.
CaseSensitive	Indicates whether string comparisons of data are case-sensitive.
PinnedColumns	Gets a read-only collection of GridViewColumns containing the pinned rows in this template.
DataMember	Gets or sets the name of the list or table in the data source for which the GridViewTemplate is displaying data.
DataSource	Gets or sets the data source that the GridViewTemplate is displaying data for.
Templates	Gets or sets the data source that the GridViewTemplate is displaying data for.
MasterViewInfo	Gets the master view info.
Groups	Gets the groups.
Columns	Gets the columns.
CurrentColumn	Gets or sets the column containing the current cell in the grid.
Rows	Gets the rows.
Parent	Gets or sets the parent GridViewTemplate.
HierarchyLevel	Gets the level of nesting for this template.
MasterTemplate	Gets the root template.
ColumnCount	Gets or sets the number of columns displayed in the current GridViewTemplate.
RowCount	Gets or sets the number of rows contained in the current GridViewTemplate.
AllowEditRow	Gets or sets a value indicating whether user can edit rows.
AllowColumnChooser	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the Column Chooser form is available to the user for this instance of GridViewTemplate
AllowRowReorder	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the user is able to reorder rows in the grid.
AllowColumnHeaderContextMenu	Gets or sets a value indicating whether context menu is displayed when user right clicks on a column header.
AllowRowHeaderContextMenu	Gets or sets a value indicating whether context menu is displayed when user right clicks on a row header.
AllowColumnResize	Gets or sets a value indicating whether user can resize columns.
AllowCellContextMenu	Gets or sets a value indicating whether context menu is displayed when user right clicks on a data cell.
AllowAutoSizeColumns	Gets or sets a value indicating whether user can automatically resize a column to fit its content by double clicking the right border of header cell.
AllowDeleteRow	Gets or sets a value indicating whether user can delete rows.
AllowAddNewRow	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the user can add new rows through the grid.
AllowSearchRow	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the user can search through the grid rows.
EnableSorting	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the data can be sorted by the end-users.
EnableCustomSorting	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the data can be sorted programatically.
EnableGrouping	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the data in the current GridViewTemplate can be grouped by users.
EnableCustomGrouping	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the data can be grouped programatically.
EnableFiltering	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the data in the current DataView can be filtered.
EnableCustomFiltering	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the data can be filtered programatically.
EnableHierarchyFiltering	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the data can be filtered using parent/child relationship.
AutoSizeColumnsMode	Gets or sets a value indicating how column widths are determined.
BottomPinnedRowsMode	Gets or sets a value indicating how bottom pinned rows are layed out.
ShowGroupedColumns	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the columns by which the data is grouped are visible.
AllowMultiColumnSorting	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the end-user can sort by more than one column.
ReadOnly	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the data in this template can be modified.
AutoGenerateColumns	Gets or sets a value indicating whether columns are created automatically when the DataSource property is set.
FilterDescriptors	Gets the filter descriptors.
SortDescriptors	Gets the sort descriptors.
GroupDescriptors	Gets the group descriptors.
ViewDefinition	Gets or sets the IGridViewDefinition associated with this template.
AutoExpandGroups	Sets or gets a value indicating the initial state of group rows when data is grouped.
AddNewRowPosition	Gets or sets a value indicating the location of the new row in the view template.
SearchRowPosition	Gets or sets a value indicating the location of the search row in the view template.
ShowRowHeaderColumn	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the row header column is visible.
ShowColumnHeaders	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the column headers are visible.
ShowFilteringRow	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the filtering row should be visible.
ShowHeaderCellButtons	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the header cell buttons are visible.
ChildViewTabsPosition	Gets or sets the position to place tabs for child views related with this template.
IsSelfReference	Gets a value indicating whether this is self reference relation.
IsVirtualRows	Gets a value indicating whether the ChildRows in hierarchy mode is virtual and hosted outside Rows collection.
ShowTotals	Gets or sets a value indicating whether total summary rows are visible in grouping.
ShowParentGroupSummaries	Gets or sets a value indicating whether parent group summary rows are visible in grouping.
ShowChildViewCaptions	Gets or sets a value indicating whether to show child view captions.
ContainsColumnExpression	Gets a value indicating if the template contains a column with defined expression.
CloseEditorWhenValidationFails	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the active editor should be closed when validation process fails.

GridViewTableElement

The following table list the properties exposed by RadGridView.TableElement:

Property	Description
RowHeight	Gets or sets the height of all data rows.
TableHeaderHeight	Gets or sets the column headers row height.
GroupHeaderHeight	Gets or sets the group header row height.
FilterRowHeight	Gets or sets the height of the filter row.
SearchRowHeight	Gets or sets the height of the search row.
ChildRowHeight	Gets or sets the row height of the child rows in a hierarchical grid.
CellSpacing	Gets or sets the cell spacing.
RowSpacing	Gets or sets the row spacing.
RowHeaderColumnWidth	Gets or sets the width of the GridViewRowHeaderColumn row header column.
TreeLevelIndent	Gets or sets the value that determines the indent width among expander primitives in self-reference hierarchy.
GroupIndent	Gets or sets the width of the GridViewIndentColumn group indent column.
NewRowHeaderImage	Gets or sets a row header image for new row.
SearchRowHeaderImage	Gets or sets a row header image for search row.
EditRowHeaderImage	Gets or sets a row header image for editing current row.
ErrorRowHeaderImage	Gets or sets a row header image for row with error.
CurrentRowHeaderImage	Gets or sets a row header image for current row.
MenuThemeName	Gets or sets a value indicating the name of the theme for the context menu in the current GridTableElement.
ScrollBarThemeName	Gets or sets a value indicating the name of the theme for the scroll bars in the current GridTableElement.
ShowSelfReferenceLines	Gets or sets a value indicating whether to show lines in self reference mode.
SkipVisibilityCheck (introduced in R2 2021 SP1)	Get or set a value indicating whether to skip the control visibility check when ensuring cell/row visibility. If you set it to true, the control will scroll to row/cell even when not visible, when ScrollTo or similar functionality is used.

Methods

Begin/End Update

The Begin/End Update block should be used when a repeated operation that affects grid layout is performed several times. This block will suspend the grid layout and it will be updated only once when the EndUpdate method is called. An example is available here