How to get the contents of a row (Model) by mousing over the row

Updated on Sep 15, 2025

Environment

Product

RadGridView for WPF

Description

How to obtain a reference to the underlying GridViewRow data model on mouse over.

Solution

Subscribe to the MouseEnter event of the GridViewRow elements. To do this, you can use the RowLoaded and RowUnloaded events of RadGridView as shown in Examples 1 and 2.

Add handlers for RowLoaded and RowUnloaded

XAML

	<telerik:RadGridView RowLoaded="RadGridView_RowLoaded" RowUnloaded="RadGridView_RowUnloaded"/>

Add MouseEnter event handler and access the hovered item

C#

   private object hoveredRowModel;

    private void RadGridView_RowLoaded(object sender, Telerik.Windows.Controls.GridView.RowLoadedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Row is GridViewRow)
        {
            e.Row.MouseEnter += Row_MouseEnter;
        }
    }

    private void RadGridView_RowUnloaded(object sender, Telerik.Windows.Controls.GridView.RowUnloadedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Row is GridViewRow)
        {
            e.Row.MouseEnter -= Row_MouseEnter;
        }
    }

    private void Row_MouseEnter(object sender, System.Windows.Input.MouseEventArgs e)
    {
        var row = (GridViewRow)sender;
        this.hoveredRowModel = row.Item;
    } 

See Also

• RadGridView Getting Started