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Songhay Studio: minimal XamDataGrid markup…

I lost a bit of time with a “Can’t set the DataSource on a DataPresenter that has items added explicitly through the DataItems collection…” error because of failing to wrap FieldLayout tags with FieldLayouts tags (what?)… so this is the minimal XAML for the XamDataGrid:

<igDP:XamDataGrid
    DataSource="{Binding RowsCollectionView}"
    VirtualizingStackPanel.VirtualizationMode="Recycling"
    VirtualizingStackPanel.IsVirtualizing="True">
    <igDP:XamDataGrid.FieldLayouts>
        <igDP:FieldLayout>
        </igDP:FieldLayout>
    </igDP:XamDataGrid.FieldLayouts>
</igDP:XamDataGrid>

This Control is so complex, it’s worth my time to list a few highlights:

  • Declare XamDataGrid.RecordLoadMode="PreloadRecords" to improve scrolling performance.
  • Consider declaring a XamDataGrid.SuppressedEvents collection to improve performance.
  • Consider declarations for FieldLayoutSettings for SelectionTypeCell, SelectionTypeField and SelectionTypeRecord (all set to Extended) when trying to allow selecting grid rows over editing data.
  • Declare FieldLayoutSettings.SortEvaluationMode="UseCollectionView" to drive sorting from an ICollectionView instance in the View Model.

https://github.com/BryanWilhite/