Question

I’ve got a DataGrid that I’ve setup a doubleclick eventsetter that calls a method. Below is my xaml, following that is my codebehind page. The double click event works, but the return I get is “system.data.datarowview” and I don’t know why. I’m trying to get the “vehicleID” value of the row which is its own column that is hidden.

XAML:

<DataGrid Name="OpenVehicles" AutoGenerateColumns="False" IsReadOnly="False" SelectedItem="{Binding vehicleID}" SelectionUnit="FullRow">
<DataGrid.ItemContainerStyle>
    <Style TargetType="DataGridRow">
        <EventSetter Event="MouseDoubleClick" Handler="OpenVehicleClick" />
    </Style>
</DataGrid.ItemContainerStyle>
<DataGrid.Columns>
    <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding vehicleID}" Width="*" Header="vehicleID" Visibility="Hidden"/>
    <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding date, StringFormat=\{0:MMM dd yyyy \}}" Width="*" Header="Date"/>
    <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding companyshortname}" Width="*" Header="Customer"/>
    <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding subject}" Width="5*" Header="Vehicle Description"/>
    <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding FName}" Width="*" Header="Owner"/>
</DataGrid.Columns>

C# Code:

        private void OpenVehicleClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(OpenVehicles.CurrentCell.Item.ToString());
    }

Any ideas on how to retrieve the column value or any other suggestions are more than welcome. I’m beyond stumped.

Answer 1

The DataRowView.Row property will contain the DataRow that you want. From there you can access the column value using DataRowView.Row["ColumnName"] indexer