Question

I need to bind the column Header text of a DataGrid to a Resource string in a XAML file. Does anybody know if this is possible ?

The column Header definition looks like this but I would like to replace the ‘MyHeaderText’ with text from a resource file:-

<data:DataGridTextColumn Header='MyHeaderText' Binding='{Binding SomeData}' IsReadOnly='True'/> 

The Resource string would be set up in the UserControl.Resources section.

Answer 1

The header presentation area is limited. You can achieve this though by utilizing a string instead of a UIElement. Make sure you have the xmlns for the ‘System’ namespace in your xaml file like so:

xmlns:sys='clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib' 

Then have the following defined in your UserControl’s Resources section:

<sys:String x:Key='MyHeader'>My Header Text</sys:String> 

Then you can do basically what Sorskoot said and you shouldn’t receive an error:

<data:DataGridTextColumn Header='{StaticResource MyHeader}' Binding='{Binding SomeData}' IsReadOnly='True' />