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Configuring Visual Appearance (xamPropertyGrid)

Topic Overview

Purpose

This topic explains how to configure some general control options.

Required background

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Topic Purpose

This topic explains the features supported by the control from developer perspective.

This topic provides an overview of the visual elements of the control.

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This topic contains the following sections:

XamPropertyGrid Configuration Summary

Control configuration summary chart

The following table explains briefly the configurable aspects of the xamPropertyGrid control and maps them to the properties that configure them.

Configurable aspect Details Properties

Show/hide filter area

Show or hide the control’s filter area.

Show/hide description area

Show or hide the control’s description area.

Set name column width

Sets the width of the property name column.

Change how the property list is sorted/grouped.

Set IsCategorized to true to group properties by category or to false to display them ungrouped and sorted alphabetically.

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Topics

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Topic Purpose

This topic explains how to customize the editors used for editing the properties’ values.

This topic explains how to configure the filtering of the control’s properties list.

This topic explains how to provide logic for custom sorting of the properties list.

This topic explains how create custom logic for assigning editing template on an editor definition.