Text Column

A DataGridTextColumn converts the content of each associated cell to a System.String object.

A DataGridTextColumn has better performance than a DataGridTemplateColumn.

Properties

Here are the specific properties for TextColumns:

• PropertyName - Gets or sets the name of the property of the object type that represents each row within the grid.
• CellContentStyle - Gets or sets the Style object that defines the appearance of each cell associated with this column. The TargetType of the Style should be TextBlock type.
• CellContentStyleSelector - Gets or sets the StyleSelector instance that allows for dynamic appearance on a per cell basis.
• CellContentFormat - Gets or sets the custom format for each cell value. The String.Format routine is used and the format passed should be in the form required by this method.

Example

The following example shows how to generate DataGridTextColumns manually:

<telerikGrid:RadDataGrid UserEditMode="Inline" x:Name="grid" AutoGenerateColumns="False" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="300">
    <telerikGrid:RadDataGrid.Columns>
        <telerikGrid:DataGridTextColumn PropertyName="Country" Header="Country">
            <telerikGrid:DataGridTextColumn.CellContentStyle>
                <Style TargetType="TextBlock">
                    <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Red"/>
                    <Setter Property="FontStyle" Value="Italic"/>
                    <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Center"/>
                    <Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Center"/>
                </Style>
            </telerikGrid:DataGridTextColumn.CellContentStyle>
        </telerikGrid:DataGridTextColumn>
        <telerikGrid:DataGridTextColumn PropertyName="Capital" Header="Capital" CellContentFormat="{}{0} city"/>
    </telerikGrid:RadDataGrid.Columns>
</telerikGrid:RadDataGrid>

In this example we have two columns. As you can see we have used the CellContentStyle property to apply a style to the first column and the CellContentFormat property to format the content of the second column.

We have also used the PropertyName property to associate each column with the relevant property from our model.

Here's how we set the ItemsSource of the grid:

this.grid.ItemsSource = new List<Data>
 { 
     new Data { Country = "Columbia", Capital = "Bogota"},
     new Data { Country = "Germany", Capital = "Berlin"},
     new Data { Country = "Italy", Capital = "Rome"},
     new Data { Country = "France", Capital = "Paris" },
     new Data { Country = "Bulgaria", Capital = "Sofia" }, 
};

Where Data is our custom class:

public class Data
{
    public string Country { get; set; }
    public string Capital { get; set; }
}