Set CharacterCasing for GridViewComboBoxColumn

Updated over 6 months ago

Environment

Product Version	Product	Author
2020.3.1020	RadGridView for WinForms	Lance McCarthy

Description

Currently, you cannot set CharacterCasing for a GridViewComboBoxColumn's editor via a top-level property.

Solution

You can use the RadGridView CellEditorInitialized event to access the RadDropDownListEditor. With that reference, you can set the internal TextBoxItem's CharacterCasing property directly.

Here is an example where we enforce Upper-Case:

C#

private void RadGridView1_CellEditorInitialized(object sender, GridViewCellEventArgs e)
{
    var ddlEditor = e.ActiveEditor as RadDropDownListEditor;
    if (ddlEditor != null)
    {
        var element = ddlEditor.EditorElement as RadDropDownListEditorElement;
        element.DropDownStyle = Telerik.WinControls.RadDropDownStyle.DropDown;
        element.TextBox.TextBoxItem.CharacterCasing = CharacterCasing.Upper;
    }
}

VB.NET

Private Sub RadGridView1_CellEditorInitialized(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewCellEventArgs)
    Dim ddlEditor = TryCast(e.ActiveEditor, RadDropDownListEditor)
    If ddlEditor IsNot Nothing Then
        Dim element = TryCast(ddlEditor.EditorElement, RadDropDownListEditorElement)
        element.DropDownStyle = Telerik.WinControls.RadDropDownStyle.DropDown
        element.TextBox.TextBoxItem.CharacterCasing = CharacterCasing.Upper
    End If
End Sub

See Also

• RadGridView Default Editors