Comments on: Embedded ListView Columns (Columns Within Columns)

By: Jason Jones

Jason Jones — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:51:56 +0000

I've been trying this technique with a CellTemplatSelector and a HeaderTemplate selector, so I can dynamically switch a ListView between one set of columns and another for different object instances of the same type. This works beautifully for the "rows", but the HeaderTemplateSelector is only called once upon form load when I run the program. Can anyone help me figure out how to trigger the "HeaderTemplateSelector" event more frequently in the example below?

By: Jason Jones

Jason Jones — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:40:19 +0000

Home run. I haven’t worked it out yet, but I think this technique allows you to dynamically switch the columns that appear in a ListView based upon an attribute type within each row. I’ve looked all over for different approaches to this, most of which focused upon the “CellTemplateSelector” angle, but I have a lot of columns in my ListView and the only difference I need between each type is the binding values – not the look and feel. Using a “CellTemplateSelectors” for this then would be a big pain in the neck.

On the other hand, I think your approach allows you to create a set of GridViewColumns to use a resource which you can then dynamically swap in or out depending upon a value within each object instance, correct?

If so, a snippet would be most helpful. I’ll keep banging my head against the wall to get it to work, though and let you know if I succeed. Thank you very much for this start.

By: biosys

biosys — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:20:43 +0000

Very nice and usefull tutorial! Thank you very much

By: hector

hector — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:27:07 +0000

nice job. i got the desired look with not WPF experience
I resize in my code some of the embedded columns and the scrollbar do not show up. the embedded columns expand under the next normal column.
any idea to fix it?

By: Tim Orr

Tim Orr — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:54:26 +0000

What a great tutorial. Very well explained and extremely useful. Thank you!

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