Hiding Add and Remove Buttons in CollectionEditor for WPF

Updated on Mar 17, 2026

Environment

Product

CollectionEditor for WPF

Description

How to hide the Add and Remove buttons in the CollectionEditor control (part of RadPropertyGrid).

Solution

On Loaded of CollectionEditor, set use the ChildrenOfType extension method to get the buttons and set their Visibility to Collapsed.

csharp

	private void CollectionEditor_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
	{
		var editor = (CollectionEditor)sender;
		var addButton = editor.ChildrenOfType<RadButton>().FirstOrDefault(x => x.Command == CollectionEditorCommands.AddNew);
		if (addButton != null)
		{
			addButton.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed;
		}
		var removeButton = editor.ChildrenOfType<RadButton>().FirstOrDefault(x => x.Command == CollectionEditorCommands.Delete);
		if (removeButton != null)
		{
			removeButton.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed;
		}        
	}