Column order for collections

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Hi. I am binding a typesafe collection to a grid. I am not creating any columns at design time – the columns are being created dynamically when the DataSource property is set. How does the grid decide the order in which these columns are displayed, and how can I set my own preferred order?

Many thanks

kh

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#13402

To set the <b>visible</b> order of the columns, you can use the <b>VisibleIndex</b> property of the Column objects. Like this:<code>myGrid.Columns[“Column1”].VisibleIndex = 0;
myGrid.Columns[“Column2”].VisibleIndex = 1;
myGrid.Columns[“Column3”].VisibleIndex = 2;</code>

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#13403

cheers tommy. i kind of hoped i could do it without hardcoding the grid to a particular bound object. i.e. the object itself determines the column order. i can think of many ways to hack this, but hoped for an elegant (e.g. attribute based) solution.

kh

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#13404

But the object itself already DOES define the column order….. The columns are displayed in the same order as they appear in your datatable (Hopefully 🙂 ).

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#13405

Kai. Thanks, but I’m not binding a DataTable. I’m binding a typed collection and the grid does not appear to use e.g. the order in which child object properties are defined. This is possibly not an Xceed grid issue but a more general databinding issue.

I’m not losing any sleep over this one, just wondered if anyone knew how this works

Thanks

kh

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