Question

I’m using the popup control in wp7 as a modal dialog to edit grid rows. The performance is dreadful – it can take up to 5 seconds to open – and I’m looking for an alternative. I’m also aware that I will have problems further down the road when I try and support landscape.

My grid control (think datagrid) that open the popup is a user control that can appear anywhere on any page. I tried embedding a hidden grid inside it that resizes to 480 x 800 but can’t seem to make it appear any higher up the page than the grid.

I don’t want to put a hidden grid on every page just in case.

Is there a better way? Surely someone must have done this sort of thing before.

Answer 1

I tried all the alternatives but ended up using the hidden grid approach.

I created a base class which looks for a named grid on the page, adds itself to the Children property and makes it visible.

It is simple, effective and supports all orientations.