Class GridColumn

Provides the base functionalities for all the column types in SfDataGrid.

Inheritance

System.Object

SfGridColumnBase<SfGridBase>

GridColumn

GridToggleSwitchColumn

GridUpDownColumn

Implements

System.IDisposable

INotifyDependencyPropertyChanged

IFilterDefinition

Inherited Members

GridColumnBase.ActualWidth

GridColumnBase.ActualWidthProperty

GridColumnBase.AllowEditing

GridColumnBase.AllowEditingProperty

GridColumnBase.AllowFocus

GridColumnBase.AllowFocusProperty

GridColumnBase.AllowSorting

GridColumnBase.AllowSortingProperty

GridColumnBase.CanEditCell()

GridColumnBase.CellStyle

GridColumnBase.CellStyleProperty

GridColumnBase.CellStyleSelector

GridColumnBase.CellStyleSelectorProperty

GridColumnBase.CellTemplate

GridColumnBase.CellTemplateProperty

GridColumnBase.CellTemplateSelector

GridColumnBase.CellTemplateSelectorProperty

GridColumnBase.DisplayBinding

GridColumnBase.GridValidationMode

GridColumnBase.GridValidationModeProperty

GridColumnBase.HeaderStyle

GridColumnBase.HeaderStyleProperty

GridColumnBase.HeaderTemplate

GridColumnBase.HeaderTemplateProperty

GridColumnBase.HeaderText

GridColumnBase.HeaderTextProperty

GridColumnBase.HeaderToolTipTemplate

GridColumnBase.HeaderToolTipTemplateProperty

GridColumnBase.HorizontalHeaderContentAlignment

GridColumnBase.HorizontalHeaderContentAlignmentProperty

GridColumnBase.IsAutoGenerated

GridColumnBase.IsHidden

GridColumnBase.IsHiddenProperty

GridColumnBase.IsReadOnly

GridColumnBase.IsReadOnlyProperty

GridColumnBase.IsTemplate

GridColumnBase.MappingName

GridColumnBase.MappingNameProperty

GridColumnBase.MaximumWidth

GridColumnBase.MaximumWidthProperty

GridColumnBase.MinimumWidth

GridColumnBase.MinimumWidthProperty

GridColumnBase.OnUpdateBindingInfo(DependencyObject, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs)

GridColumnBase.Padding

GridColumnBase.PaddingProperty

GridColumnBase.SetCellBoundToolTip

GridColumnBase.SetCellBoundToolTipProperty

GridColumnBase.SetCellBoundValue

GridColumnBase.SetCellBoundValueProperty

GridColumnBase.SetValueBindingConverter()

GridColumnBase.ShowHeaderToolTip

GridColumnBase.ShowHeaderToolTipProperty

GridColumnBase.ShowToolTip

GridColumnBase.ShowToolTipProperty

GridColumnBase.TextAlignment

GridColumnBase.TextAlignmentProperty

GridColumnBase.ToolTipTemplate

GridColumnBase.ToolTipTemplateProperty

GridColumnBase.ToolTipTemplateSelector

GridColumnBase.ToolTipTemplateSelectorProperty

GridColumnBase.UpdateBindingForValidation(GridValidationMode)

GridColumnBase.UpdateTrigger

GridColumnBase.UpdateTriggerProperty

GridColumnBase.ValueBinding

GridColumnBase.VerticalAlignment

GridColumnBase.VerticalAlignmentProperty

GridColumnBase.Width

GridColumnBase.WidthProperty

SfGridColumnBase<SfGridBase>.Dispose()

Namespace: Syncfusion.UI.Xaml.Grid

Assembly: Syncfusion.SfGrid.UWP.dll

Syntax

public abstract class GridColumn : GridColumnBase, IDisposable, INotifyDependencyPropertyChanged, IFilterDefinition

Constructors

GridColumn()

Declaration

protected GridColumn()

Fields

AllowBlankFiltersProperty

Identifies the AllowBlankFilters dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty AllowBlankFiltersProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the AllowBlankFilters dependency property.

AllowDraggingProperty

Identifies the AllowDragging dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty AllowDraggingProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the AllowDragging dependency property.

AllowFilteringProperty

Identifies the AllowFiltering dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty AllowFilteringProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the AllowFiltering dependency property.

AllowGroupingProperty

Identifies the AllowGrouping dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty AllowGroupingProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the AllowGrouping dependency property.

AllowResizingProperty

Identifies the AllowResizing dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty AllowResizingProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the AllowResizing dependency property.

ColumnSizerProperty

Identifies the ColumnSizer dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty ColumnSizerProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the ColumnSizer dependency property.

FilterPopupStyleProperty

Identifies the FilterPopupStyle dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty FilterPopupStyleProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the FilterPopupStyle dependency property.

FilterPopupTemplateProperty

Identifies the FilterPopupTemplate dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty FilterPopupTemplateProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the FilterPopupTemplate dependency property.

FilterRowCellStyleProperty

Identifies the FilterRowCellStyle dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty FilterRowCellStyleProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the FilterRowCellStyle dependency property.

FilterRowConditionProperty

Identifies the FilterRowCondition dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty FilterRowConditionProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the FilterRowCondition dependency property.

FilterRowOptionsVisibilityProperty

Identifies the FilterRowOptionsVisibility dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty FilterRowOptionsVisibilityProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the FilterRowOptionsVisibility dependency property.

FilterRowTextProperty

Identifies the FilterRowText dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty FilterRowTextProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the FilterRowText dependency property.

GroupModeProperty

Identifies the GroupMode dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty GroupModeProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the GroupMode dependency property.

ImmediateUpdateColumnFilterProperty

Identifies the ImmediateUpdateColumnFilter dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty ImmediateUpdateColumnFilterProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the ImmediateUpdateColumnFilter dependency property.

IsCaseSensitiveFilterRowProperty

Identifies the IsCaseSensitiveFilterRow dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty IsCaseSensitiveFilterRowProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the IsCaseSensitiveFilterRow dependency property.

SortModeProperty

Identifies the SortMode dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty SortModeProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the SortMode dependency property.

UseBindingValueProperty

Identifies the dependency property.

Declaration

public static readonly DependencyProperty UseBindingValueProperty

Field Value

Type
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyProperty

Remarks

The identifier for the dependency property.

Properties

AllowBlankFilters

Get or sets a value that indicates whether the blank values are allowed for filtering in column.

Declaration

public bool AllowBlankFilters { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean	true if the blank values are allowed for filtering in column; otherwise, false. The default value is true.

AllowDragging

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the user can rearrange the columns.

Declaration

public bool AllowDragging { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean	true if the user can re arrange the columns; otherwise, false. The default value is false .

AllowFiltering

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether to enable UI Filtering in column header to filter the column.

Declaration

public bool AllowFiltering { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean	true if the UI filtering is enabled in the column ; otherwise, false.The default value is false.

Remarks

The filtering operation can be canceled or customized through FilterChanging and FilterChanged events in SfDataGrid.

AllowGrouping

Gets or sets a value indicates whether the user can drag and drop the column to GroupDropArea.

Declaration

public bool AllowGrouping { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean	true if the user can drag and drop the column to GroupDropArea; otherwise, false. The default value is true .

Remarks

This property will takes higher priority than AllowGrouping property.

AllowResizing

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the user can resize the column.

Declaration

public bool AllowResizing { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean	true if the user can adjust the column width; otherwise, false. The default value is false .

CellType

Gets the cell type of the column which denotes renderer associated with column.

Declaration

public string CellType { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.String	A string that represents the cell type of the column.

ColumnFilter

Gets or sets a value that decides whether to filter based on display value or based on MappingName.

Declaration

public ColumnFilter ColumnFilter { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
ColumnFilter	One of the ColumnFilter enumeration that decides how the items populated for the filter control in the column. By default, the filter value is populated based on property.

ColumnMemberType

Gets or sets the member type to load the appropriate AdvancedFilterType to AdvancedFilterControl .

Declaration

public Type ColumnMemberType { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Type	The type that loads the appropriate AdvancedFilterType to AdvancedFilterControl in column.

Remarks

By default, the AdvancedFilterControl loads TextFilter , when the underlying data source is dynamic. So , you can decide the appropriate AdvancedFilterType by using this property based on its member type. For example, the TextFilter for string type , NumberFilter for numeric type and the DateFilter for DateTime type of member.

ColumnSizer

Gets or sets the value that indicates how the column width is determined.

Declaration

public GridLengthUnitType ColumnSizer { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
GridLengthUnitType	One of the GridLengthUnitType enumeration that adjust the column width. The default value is None.

DataGrid

Gets the reference to the SfDataGrid control.

Declaration

protected SfDataGrid DataGrid { get; }

Property Value

Type
SfDataGrid

FilterBehavior

Gets or sets a value that decides whether filter value should be considered as string type or its underlying type while filtering.

Declaration

public FilterBehavior FilterBehavior { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
FilterBehavior	One of the enumeration that specifies the filter behavior of the column.

Remarks

The Advanced Filter UI will be loaded based on this property.

FilteredFrom

Gets a value that determines whether the column is filtered from Check box filter UI or Advanced filter in UI Filtering.

Declaration

public FilteredFrom FilteredFrom { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
FilteredFrom	One of FilteredFrom enumeration that specifies when the column is from .

FilterPopupStyle

Gets or sets the style applied to the filter popup in column.

Declaration

public Style FilterPopupStyle { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
Windows.UI.Xaml.Style	The style that is applied to the filter pop-up in GridColumn. The default value is null.

Remarks

To define a for filter pop-up, specify a TargetType of GridFilterControl.

FilterPopupTemplate

Gets or sets that defines the visual representation of the filter pop-up in GridColumn.

Declaration

public DataTemplate FilterPopupTemplate { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
Windows.UI.Xaml.DataTemplate	The object that defines the visual representation of the filter pop-up in GridColumn. The default value is null.

FilterPredicates

Gets the collection of FilterPredicate in the column.

Declaration

public ObservableCollection<FilterPredicate> FilterPredicates { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection<FilterPredicate>	The collection of filter predicate in the column.

FilterRowCellStyle

Gets or sets the style applied to the FilterRow cell of the column.

Declaration

public Style FilterRowCellStyle { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
Windows.UI.Xaml.Style	The style that is applied to the FilterRow cell of the column. The default value is null.

Remarks

To define a for a FilterRow cell, specify a TargetType of GridFilterRowCell.

Declaration

public FilterRowCondition FilterRowCondition { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
FilterRowCondition	One of the enumeration that specifies the FilterRow constraints of the column.

Remarks

The FilterRowCell which loads the TextBox, Numeric or DateTime editor allows you to edit the values to filter in the corresponding column. Where you can change the default conditions that want to be applied for the particular filtering as per the editor that have been loaded.

Editor	Default FilterRowCondition
TextBox	BeginsWith
Numeric	Equals

FilterRowEditorType

Gets or sets a value which denotes the Editor which have to be load in corresponding FilterRowCell.

Declaration

public string FilterRowEditorType { get; set; }

Property Value

Type
System.String

Remarks

The name which refers the renderers in FilterRowCellRenderers collection. By default, the corresponding renderer will be loaded based on underlying type.

Name	Renderers
TextBox	GridFilterRowTextBoxRenderer
Numeric	GridFilterRowNumericRenderer
CheckBox	GridFilterRowCheckBoxRenderer

FilterRowOptionsVisibility

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the FilterRowOptions button is visible in the GridFilterRowCell.

Declaration

public Visibility FilterRowOptionsVisibility { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
Windows.UI.Xaml.Visibility	One of the enumeration that specifies the FilterRowOptions button visiblity in GridFilterRowCell; The default value is Visibility.Visible .

FilterRowText

Gets the filtered value of the particular column where the filtering has been applied through FilterRow.

Declaration

public object FilterRowText { get; protected set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Object	The filtered value that is applied FilterRow in the particular column. The default value is null.

GroupMode

Gets or sets a value that decides whether grouping is processed based on display value or edit value of column.

Declaration

public DataReflectionMode GroupMode { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
DataReflectionMode	Default mode performs default grouping operation based on value. Display mode performs grouping operation based on display value of column. Value mode performs grouping operation based on actual value of column.

Remarks

Group key is set based on property.

ImmediateUpdateColumnFilter

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the data is automatically filtered as soon as an user selects or types value in the filter pop-up of column.

Declaration

public bool ImmediateUpdateColumnFilter { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean	true if the data is filtered automatically; otherwise false. The default value is false.

IsCaseSensitiveFilterRow

Gets or sets value that indicates whether the case sensitive filtering is enabled on FilterRowCell of a particular column.

Declaration

public bool IsCaseSensitiveFilterRow { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean	true if the case sensitive filtering is enabled on the FilterRowCell of a column; otherwise, false. The default value is false.

SortMode

Gets or sets a value that decides whether sorting is processed based on display value or edit value of column.

Declaration

public DataReflectionMode SortMode { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
DataReflectionMode	Default mode performs default sorting operation based on value. Display mode performs sorting operation based on display value of column. Value mode performs sorting operation based on actual value of column.

UseBindingValue

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the binding gets property value from column wrapper instead of reflecting value from the item properties.

Declaration

public bool UseBindingValue { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Boolean	true if the property value gets from column wrapper; otherwise, false. The default value is false.

Remarks

This property helps to perform sorting, filtering, grouping operations on complex or indexer properties.

Methods

CanAllowSpinOnMouseScroll()

Determines whether to increment and decrement the cell value in mouse wheel and up,down arrow key is pressed.

Declaration

protected virtual bool CanAllowSpinOnMouseScroll()

Returns

Type	Description
System.Boolean	Returns true if the cell value can be rotated using mouse wheel or up and down arrow key ; otherwise false .

CanEditCell(Int32)

Determines whether the column is editable.

Declaration

protected virtual bool CanEditCell(int rowIndex = -1)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Int32	rowIndex	The corresponding rowIndex of the editable cell.

Returns

Type	Description
System.Boolean	Returns true if all the cells with in the column is editable .

CanEndEditColumn()

Determines whether the boolean type columns can EndEdit or not.

Declaration

protected virtual bool CanEndEditColumn()

Returns

Type	Description
System.Boolean	Returns true, if the column is boolean type, otherwise false.

Remarks

Override this method to determine whether the EndEdit should be processed for boolean type columns or not. For all other column types EndEdit will be processed based on the IsEditable property.

CanFocus()

Determines whether the corresponding column can receive focus.

Declaration

protected virtual bool CanFocus()

Returns

Type	Description
System.Boolean	Returns true if the column is loaded with editor in its CellTemplate.

Dispose(Boolean)

Releases all resources used by the SfDataGrid and Columns.

Declaration

protected override void Dispose(bool isDisposing)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Boolean	isDisposing	Indicates whether the call is from Dispose method or from a finalizer.

Overrides

GridColumnBase.Dispose(Boolean)

GetFilterRowOptionsVisibility()

Gets the value that indicates the visibility of FilterOption button.

Declaration

protected virtual Visibility GetFilterRowOptionsVisibility()

Returns

Type	Description
Windows.UI.Xaml.Visibility	Returns Visible if FilterOptions is required for the particular FilterRowCell.

GetRowFilterType()

Gets the AdvancedFilterType of the parituclar column

Declaration

protected virtual string GetRowFilterType()

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	Returns the editor type which need to be load in GridFilterRowCell.

IsHiddenColumn()

Determines whether the corresponding column is hidden or not.

Declaration

protected virtual bool IsHiddenColumn()

Returns

Type	Description
System.Boolean	Returns true if the column is hidden or width is zero otherwise false.

OnCellTemplateChanged(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs)

Invoked when the dependency property value changed in the column.

Declaration

protected override void OnCellTemplateChanged(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs	e	The that contains data for CellTemplate dependency property changes.

Overrides

GridColumnBase.OnCellTemplateChanged(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs)

OnCellTemplateSelectorChanged(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs)

Invoked when the CellTemplateSelector dependency property is changed in column.

Declaration

protected override void OnCellTemplateSelectorChanged(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs	e	The that contains data for the CellTemplateSelector dependency property changes.

Overrides

GridColumnBase.OnCellTemplateSelectorChanged(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs)

OnDependencyPropertyChanged(String, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs)

Invoked whenever the value of any dependency property in the column has been updated.

Declaration

public void OnDependencyPropertyChanged(string propertyName, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	propertyName	The property name that has changed in column.
Windows.UI.Xaml.DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs	e	that contains the data for various dependency property changed events.

SetCellType(String)

Sets the cell type which indicates the renderer for the column.

Declaration

protected void SetCellType(string cellType)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	cellType	Specifies the corresponding cell type of the column.

SetDisplayBindingConverter()

Sets the converter for the DisplayBinding of column.

Declaration

protected override void SetDisplayBindingConverter()

Overrides

GridColumnBase.SetDisplayBindingConverter()

Remarks

You can override this method to specify the converter for DisplayBinding.

SetFilterRowText(String)

Set the FilterRowText while applying the Filtered from FilterRow

Declaration

protected virtual void SetFilterRowText(string filterRowText)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	filterRowText	FilterText of that column

UpdateBindingBasedOnAllowEditing()

Updates the binding based on the allowediting.

Declaration

protected override void UpdateBindingBasedOnAllowEditing()

Overrides

GridColumnBase.UpdateBindingBasedOnAllowEditing()

Implements

System.IDisposable

INotifyDependencyPropertyChanged

IFilterDefinition

Extension Methods

DateTimeExtension.ToDateTime(Object)