.NET MAUI DataGrid Commands

The command design-pattern is very important and widely used in the XAML and MVVM world. The Telerik UI for .NET MAUI DataGrid strictly follows these best practices and provides an intuitive and an easy-to-use set of APIs that allow different aspects of the DataGrid behavior to be handled and/or completely overridden.

The DataGrid exposes a Commands collection that allows you to register custom commands with each control instance through the RadDataGrid.Commands property:

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• Commands—Gets the collection with all the custom commands registered with the CommandService. Custom commands have higher priority than the built-in (default) ones.

Command Types

• DataGridCommand—All the default commands within RadDataGrid derive from the base DataGridCommand. Think of this command as a UI-related command as it operates over the RadDataGrid instance that owns the command.

  • Id—The key that relates a command instance to a particular action/routine. This value is used to associate a command with a known event within a RadDataGrid instance.
  • Command—Gets or sets the generic ICommand implementation that may come from the ViewModel.
  • EnableDefaultCommand—Gets or sets a value indicating whether the default (built-in) UI command associated with the specified Id will be executed. The default value is True.
    

DataGridCommandId Enumeration

All the predefined commands within a RadDataGrid instance are identified by a member of the DataGridCommandId enumeration. This is actually the key that relates a command instance to a particular action/routine within the owning grid. To register a custom command within a RadDataGrid instance, you can inherit the DataGridCommand class and override its CanExecute and Execute methods. You need to set the Id property of the new command so that it can be properly associated with the desired action/event. Following are the members of the DataGridCommandId enumerations.

The table below shows all commands in the DataGrid control and for each of the available commands there is an object which is passed as a parameter in its Execute method.

Commands	Object type
Unknown	DataGridColumn
ColumnHeaderTap	DataGridTextColumn
GroupHeaderTap	GroupHeaderContext
GroupHeaderButtonTap	GroupHeaderContext
CellTap	DataGridCellInfo
CellDoubleTap	DataGridCellInfo
GenerateColumn	GenerateColumnContext
DataBindingComplete	DataBindingCompleteEventArgs
BeginEdit	EditContext
CancelEdit	EditContext
CommitEdit	EditContext
ValidateCell	ValidateCellContext
LoadMoreData	LoadOnDemandContext
FilterTap	FilterTapContext
ApplyFilter	FilterTapContext
CloseFilter	FilterTapContext
ResetFilter	FilterTapContext
KeyDown	KeyboardInfo
ToggleRowDetailsButtonTap	the type is the data model

For an outline of all DataGrid features review the .NET MAUI DataGrid Overview article.

See Also

• CellTap Command
• Editing Command
• Validation Command