Question

I Really need help in this …

I’m building an application where I need to have somethings in the datagrid.

I want to have the datagrid to have drop-down lists, these lists will will change depending on other drop-down values, also depending on previous values. I can handle this …

I want to know how to know how to create the datagrid, i.e. how to add columns (statically), rows (dynamically).

Mainly, the data will be stored in XML file.

Answer 1

You can do something like this –

//Load XML file and set the DataGrid data context
XElement mymusic = XElement.Load("mymusic.xml");
dg1.DataContext = mymusic.Elements("Album");

Xaml:

<toolkit:DataGrid Name="dg1" ItemsSource="{Binding}"  >
    <toolkit:DataGrid.Columns>
        <toolkit:DataGridTextColumn Header="Album Title" Binding="{Binding Path=Attribute[Title].Value}" HeaderStyle="{StaticResource MyHeaderStyle}" />
        <toolkit:DataGridTextColumn Header="Artist" Binding="{Binding Path=Attribute[Artist].Value}" HeaderStyle="{StaticResource MyHeaderStyle}"/>
        <toolkit:DataGridTextColumn Header="Release Date" Binding="{Binding Path=Attribute[ReleaseDate].Value}" HeaderStyle="{StaticResource MyHeaderStyle}" />
    </toolkit:DataGrid.Columns>
</toolkit:DataGrid>

Check this article for more details –

A DataGrid sample using XML data