Question

I have a project where there is an existing DataGrid. I have a DataSet properly bound to it and can populate columns with data for the field in the DataSet they represent.

Now I am in a situation where over time some of these descriptor fields are empty, so if I explicitly show columns and then populate the user ends up seeing a sparsely populated ugly DataGrid.

Is there some way that I can remove dividers/columns and merge descript fields. For example, if User A only has his/her email field filled out, User B only has the name field filled out and User C only had phone number field filled out I would like to display something that looks like a simple list:
[e-mail]
Useri S. Bee
[phone]

Is this possible? Is this done in the XAML or the codebehind?

Answer 1

It is possible that you can solve it like this: bind your DataSet to the ListBox and work with a DataTemplate. 🙂

MSDN DataTemplate Overview

Or you could convert your rows to string and then you get a List and then bind that to the ListBox. I think the first solution is better.