WPF Datagrid Get Selected Cell Value

Question

I want to get value for selected cell in datagrid , please anyone tell how to do this. i used SelectedCell changed event , how can i do that?

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Answer 1

I'm extending the solution by Rushi to following (which solved the puzzle for me)

var cellInfo = Grid1.SelectedCells[0];
var content = (cellInfo.Column.GetCellContent(cellInfo.Item) as TextBlock).Text;

Answer 2

If SelectionUnit="Cell" try this:

    string cellValue = GetSelectedCellValue();

Where:

    public string GetSelectedCellValue()
    {
        DataGridCellInfo cellInfo = MyDataGrid.SelectedCells[0];
        if (cellInfo == null) return null;

        DataGridBoundColumn column = cellInfo.Column as DataGridBoundColumn;
        if (column == null) return null;

        FrameworkElement element = new FrameworkElement() { DataContext = cellInfo.Item };
        BindingOperations.SetBinding(element, TagProperty, column.Binding);

        return element.Tag.ToString();
    }

Seems like it shouldn't be that complicated, I know...

Edit: This doesn't seem to work on DataGridTemplateColumn type columns. You could also try this if your rows are made up of a custom class and you've assigned a sort member path:

    public string GetSelectedCellValue()
    {
        DataGridCellInfo cells = MyDataGrid.SelectedCells[0];

        YourRowClass item = cells.Item as YourRowClass;
        string columnName = cells.Column.SortMemberPath;

        if (item == null || columnName == null) return null;

        object result = item.GetType().GetProperty(columnName).GetValue(item, null);

        if (result == null) return null;

        return result.ToString();
    }

Answer 3

Ok after doing reverse engineering and a little pixie dust of reflection, one can do this operation on SelectedCells (at any point) to get all (regardless of selected on one row or many rows) the data from one to many selected cells:

MessageBox.Show(

string.Join(", ", myGrid.SelectedCells
                        .Select(cl => cl.Item.GetType()
                                             .GetProperty(cl.Column.SortMemberPath)
                                             .GetValue(cl.Item, null)))

               );

I tried this on text (string) fields only though a DateTime field should return a value the initiate ToString(). Also note that SortMemberPath is not the same as Header so that should always provide the proper property to reflect off of.

<DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding MyData}"                      
          AutoGenerateColumns="True"
          Name="myGrid"
          IsReadOnly="True"
          SelectionUnit="Cell"
          SelectionMode="Extended">

Answer 4

I was in such situation .. and found This:

int ColumnIndex = DataGrid.CurrentColumn.DisplayIndex;
TextBlock CellContent = DataGrid.SelectedCells[ColumnIndex].Column.GetCellContent(DataGrid.SelectedItem);

And make sure to treat custom columns' templates

Answer 5

If you are selecting only one cell then get selected cell content like this

var cellInfo = dataGrid1.SelectedCells[0];

var content = cellInfo.Column.GetCellContent(cellInfo.Item);

Here content will be your selected cells value

And if you are selecting multiple cells then you can do it like this

var cellInfos = dataGrid1.SelectedCells;

var list1 = new List<string>();

foreach (DataGridCellInfo cellInfo in cellInfos)
{
    if (cellInfo.IsValid)
    {
        //GetCellContent returns FrameworkElement
        var content= cellInfo.Column.GetCellContent(cellInfo.Item); 

        //Need to add the extra lines of code below to get desired output

        //get the datacontext from FrameworkElement and typecast to DataRowView
        var row = (DataRowView)content.DataContext;

        //ItemArray returns an object array with single element
        object[] obj = row.Row.ItemArray;

        //store the obj array in a list or Arraylist for later use
        list1.Add(obj[0].ToString());
    }
}

Answer 6

I struggled with this one for a long time! (Using VB.NET) Basically you get the row index and column index of the selected cell, and then use that to access the value.

Private Sub LineListDataGrid_SelectedCellsChanged(sender As Object, e As SelectedCellsChangedEventArgs) Handles LineListDataGrid.SelectedCellsChanged

    Dim colInd As Integer = LineListDataGrid.CurrentCell.Column.DisplayIndex

    Dim rowInd As Integer = LineListDataGrid.Items.IndexOf(LineListDataGrid.CurrentItem)

    Dim item As String

    Try
        item = LLDB.LineList.Rows(rowInd)(colInd)
    Catch
        Exit Sub
    End Try

End Sub

End Class