How can I put a Silverlight 3 DataGridCell into edit mode in code?

Question

I want to be able to pick a specific cell in a Silverlight 3.0 DataGrid and put it into edit mode. I can use the VisualTreeManager to locate the cell. How do I switch to e

Answer 1

I am not able to understand your problem properly, but I had a similar problem

I wanted to make only few of the Grid Cells editable and rest were not. Instead of creating a logic and assigning ReadOnly as true/ false, I did the simple thing.

• Mark the whole Grid's cells are writable, IsReadOnly as false
• Set the event PreparingCellForEdit and send a callback
• When you double click on a cell, it gets in the edit mode
• Check whether this cell you want to be editable
• If it is allowed to be edited, go ahead
• If that cell is ReadOnly, then call CancelEdit

The sample code goes like

namespace foo
{
    public class foobar
    {
        public foobar()
        {
            sampleGrid = new DataGrid();
            sampleGrid.IsReadOnly = false;
            sampleGrid.PreparingCellForEdit += new EventHandler(sampleGrid_PreparingCellForEdit);
        }

        void sampleGrid_PreparingCellForEdit(object sender, DataGridsampleGrid_PreparingCellForEditEventArgs e)
        {
            if (sampleGrid.SelectedItem != null)
            {
                bool isWritableField = CheckIfWritable()

                if (isWritableField == false)
                {
                    sampleGrid.CancelEdit();
                }

                // continue with your logic
            }
        }

        private DataGrid sampleGrid;
    }
}