Question

I have a ‘matrix’ object like follows:

public class Matrix
{    
   public Dictionary<string, string> PropertyBags { ... }
   // Sample Property Bag: [{"Column A", "A"}, {"Column B", "B"}]

   public List<PropertyBags Row { ... }    
}

I wonder what’s a practical solution for displaying my objects in WPF DataGrid?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yep, you can do it in code behind of a Grid View. The idea is to bind a custom data set to a grid.DataSource property and then add columns dynamically, see examples by links below.
Also the second link provides an good example using Dependency Property which bound to a ItemsSource of a grid in XAML, also DP has OnPropertyChangedCallback provided so each time you update a data set by new value:

• PropertyChanged get raised which automaticalli trigger an callback
• In callback you are populating grid.DataSource by a new data items
• UI get updated because in XAML grid has

Links to the examples:

• WPF Dynamically Generated DataGrid
• Binding a ListView to a Data Matrix