SYSK 298: WPF: Control Whether a Grid’s Cell Is Editable in XAML

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Say, you’re using a grid control to display some data, and you’re allowing users to modify data under certain circumstances. Based on a business rule, you’d like to “lock” a certain record (i.e. make it read-only).

 

If you’re using data binding it’s quite straight forward. In my example, I’m using an XML data source and a TextBox control to let users view/modify the data. I use submitted XML data attribute to control whether the record should be editable or not:

 

<GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>

<DataTemplate>

      <TextBox Text="{Binding XPath=@type}" IsReadOnly="{Binding XPath=@submitted}" Width="100px"/>

</DataTemplate>

</GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>