Not sure if this is what you are looking for. I've used the below to autofit the column to see the entire text.

Grid.DisplayLayout.Bands[0].CardSettings.AutoFit = true

Ada 

Hi Marc,

    Are you trying to do this in code or in the Designer. In the RowLayout Designer, you should be able to just click and drag the bottom edge of the cell to increase the height.

    Perhaps it would be easier if you contacted Infragistics Developer Support by phone and they could talk you through it.  

Okay, here's a simple step-by-step way to do this. I just tried it out and it works.

1. Create a new project in Visual Studio.
2. Place a grid on the form. This brings up the UltraWinGrid Quick Start.
3. Select "Create an UltraDataSrouce, design its data schema and bind it to the control..." I then added some columns to the band and clicked Finish. This is just an example, so I'm using an UltraDataSource, but you could hook the grid up to any data source at design-time or just design the schema and bind later. 
4. Now I click the Start button on the grid to bring up the UltraWinGrid Designer. 
5. Expand Band and Column Settings and select the band.
6. Set CardView to True.
7. Set UseRowLayout to True.  
8. Now click on Columns. Select the column you want to be multiline and set CellMultiline to true.  
9. Now select Column Arrangement Overview. Use Row Layout should be selected at the bottom. Click the Design Column Arrangement Now button. This takes you to the Row Layout Designer. 
10. I dragged the column headers around so that the columns are stacked on top of each other like a normal card. 
11. Then I click and drag one of the little square glyphs at the bottom of the multi-line column and make the cell taller.  
12. Click OK.  

My finished grid looks like this:

Hi mike,

thank you for your help!
You explained it very nice! But Im programming only in the Code cause I dont trust some Help-Utilitys like the Designer.
I want to see what iam changing ;-)
Your  demo  is exactly what I need but for the Code :-)

Thanks anyway!
I will try 2 more weeks maybe? :-)

greetings marc 

 Hey mike,

 now I made 2 projects and remade your step-by-step.
At the first project I made it exactly like you.
At the second project I did not made step 10 and 11.
Cause  in my personal project all looks like shitty crap ^^ if I do it like you said.
I copied the Codes from these two project in "Winmerge" that I can see what changed.
I noticed that the Ultrawingrid save some "Layouts" of the Band (All settings included).
maybe that will be the rigth way I think?

Iam very frustrated about this grid :-(
greetings marc

Trying to set up a GridBagLayout in code is very difficult. You would have to understand all of the GridBagLayout properties like SpanX, SPanY, OriginX, OriginY, PreferredWidth, PreferredHeight and how all of these interact with the grid's other properties such as the width of the column. 

I would recommend that you set up the grid the way you want it in the designer and then save the grid's DisplayLayout to a file. You can do this by right-clicking the grid in the designer and selecting the Layout Wizard. Then load this layout at run-time. That will be a lot easier than trying to set up the layout in code.

If you want to try setting up the layout in code, then I would recommend reading up on the concept of a GridBagLayout. I'm sure there must be lots of information about this concept on the internet. :)

Adam,

thank you for that workaround!

Mike,

I use .NET 2007 Rel. 3 and the above mentioned workaround works fine. Is this problem solved in a newer version of the grid control?

Thanks for your reply!

Marc - I had a similar requirement and this is what I did - the result is a dynamic multiline Cell in a cardview when the Text is multiline...

1. Set the CellMultiLine to true for the CardView:

Grid.DisplayLayout.Bands[0].Override.CellMultiLine = DefaultableBoolean.True;

2.  In the InitializeRow Event :

foreach (UltraGridCell cell in e.Row.Cells)

            {

                if (cell.Text.Contains(Environment.NewLine) && !cell.Column.Header.Caption.Contains(Environment.NewLine))

                {

                    cell.Column.Header.Caption = cell.Column.Header.Caption + Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine; 

                }

            }

Adam

There are a few properties for this.

Check out e.Layout.Override and look at the properties of the Override object that start with the word Allow. Like AllowRowLayoutColMoving, AllowRowLayoutResize, etc. 

 Hi mike,

:-) Sorry but I have one more and last question ^^

what is the command in the "initialze layout" to make the grid so that the User in runtime can change _everything_
I want to have this option(s) active that I can change the grid like it should be then bin a button to save the layout and in the release version it should be like this:
the button is deletet, no options are in the "initialize layout" and in form load I will load the saved layout from file(that one who I changed earlier).

:-) It sounds good I think and it has to be sucessfull ^^

greetings marc 

 Hey Mike,

Whole the day I tried this way but its very very much to configure and erverything interact with some other options.
Manualy adding the Band and Columns and format them in the right style or layout is very complicated :-(
As like you said to save the layout and load it at runtime is a good hint I thought it to do in the morning, too.
But my  chief is not for this way (Iam not, too). Because I cant control what the designer is doing there.

I'll look at the "layout-save"-way and the other and will decide in the future.

Now I want to thank you very much again! You helped me extremely!
At now on I dont want to use your time  longer. I think you have otherthings to do that are more important :-)

Thanks again very much!
greetings Marc