My WPF DataGrid not displaying the Combobox

Question

Hi Everyone I'm trying to generate a combox column from code behind for my datagrid.

XAML

CodeBehind

DataGridComboBoxColumn styleList1 = new DataGridComboBoxColumn();
styleList1.Header = "Tags";            
styleList1.ItemsSource = StyleHandler.GetParaList.ToArray

Answer

You have indicated that the DataGrid will create it's own columns. The header is simply the property name. All columns will be by default a DataGridTextColumn. If you want other column types you will need to generate your own columns in XAML for the DataGrid.

Answer

In the DataGridComboBoxColumn you need to indicate the collection that populates the ComboBox and the Selected item in the collection. I find that DataGridComboBoxColumn is difficult to work with. I would suggest a DataGridTemplateColumn with the CellTemplate a standard ComboBox with binding for the collection of items to choose from and the SelectedItem to get the selected item in the ComboBox.

Answer

For binding the collection to the Combobox in the DataGrid, you could refer to the following example. When editing the last row of cells to add a new row in the DataGrid, what you can do is:

Make sure your DataGrid has CanUserAddRows=True.
Make sure the class in the collectiuon that you are binding has a default constructor (no parameters).
Make sure the collection type is not readonly.

For more information, you can refer here.

The code of xaml:

The code of xaml.cs:

using System.Windows;  
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;  
using System.ComponentModel;  
using System;  
using System.Windows.Controls;  
  
namespace DataGridCombobox  
{  
  public partial class MainWindow : Window  
  {  
    private bool _justCreatedNewItem;  
    public MainWindow()  
    {  
      InitializeComponent();  
      dataGrid.BeginningEdit += (o, e) =>  
      {  
        if (_justCreatedNewItem)  
        {  
          dataGrid.CommitEdit(DataGridEditingUnit.Row, true);  
          _justCreatedNewItem = false;  
        }  
      };  
      dataGrid.InitializingNewItem += (o, e) => { _justCreatedNewItem = true; };  
    }  
  }  
  public class ViewModel : INotifyPropertyChanged  
  {  
    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged ;  
  
    private void NotifyPropertyChanged(String info)  
    {  
      if (PropertyChanged != null)  
      {  
        PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(info));  
      }  
    }  
    private ObservableCollection _myCollection { get; set; }  
  
    public ObservableCollection MyCollection  
    {  
      get { return _myCollection; }  
      set  
      {  
        _myCollection = value;  
        NotifyPropertyChanged(nameof(MyCollection));  
      }  
    }  
    private ObservableCollection _source1 { get; set; }  
    public ObservableCollection Source1  
    {  
      get { return _source1; }  
      set { _source1 = value; NotifyPropertyChanged(nameof(Source1)); }  
    }  
    public ViewModel()  
    {  
      _source1 = new ObservableCollection();  
      _myCollection = new ObservableCollection();  
      SetupSource();  
  
    }  
    private void SetupSource()  
    {  
      _source1.Add(new Source1(2));  
      _source1.Add(new Source1(3));  
      _source1.Add(new Source1(5));  
      _source1.Add(new Source1(8));  
      _myCollection.Add(new MyClass("name1",12,30.3));  
      _myCollection.Add(new MyClass("name2",22,30.3));  
      _myCollection.Add(new MyClass("name3",32,30.3));  
      _myCollection.Add(new MyClass("name3",32,30.3));  
    }  
  
  
  }  
  public class Source1  
  {  
    public int Number { get; set; }  
    public Source1(int n)  
    {  
      Number = n;  
    }  
  }  
  public class MyClass  
  {  
    public string Name { get; set; }  
    public int Age { get; set; }  
    public double Salary { get; set; }  
    public MyClass()  
    {  
  
    }  
    public MyClass(string n, int a, double s)  
    {  
      Name = n;  
      Age = a;  
      Salary = s;  
    }  
  }  
}

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Not about your problem in general but I would suggest if you are going to use WPF to learn XAML and data binding. When I switched from WinForms to WPF it was to "make a better looking app". I spent as you are doing lots of time trying to simulate what was happening in WinForms in WPF. This caused lots of problems as you have found and can be solved by using WPF in the WPF way.

Learn MVVM and you will have the basis for solving most of your WPF problems.

My WPF DataGrid not displaying the Combobox

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