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PagedCollectionView.CanGroup Property

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Gets a value that indicates whether this view supports grouping.

Namespace:  System.Windows.Data
Assembly:  System.Windows.Data (in System.Windows.Data.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public ReadOnly Property CanGroup As Boolean
public bool CanGroup { get; }

Property Value

Type: System.Boolean
true in all cases.

Implements

ICollectionView.CanGroup

Remarks

This implementation always returns true.

Typically, you use this property to test whether the view supports grouping before setting the GroupDescriptions property.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to add group descriptions to the GroupDescriptions collection to group data in a DataGrid display. This example is part of a larger example available in the How to: Group, Sort, and Filter Data in the DataGrid Control topic.

If taskListView.CanGroup = True Then
    ' Group tasks by ProjectName...
    taskListView.GroupDescriptions.Add(New PropertyGroupDescription("ProjectName"))
    ' Then group by Complete status.
    taskListView.GroupDescriptions.Add(New PropertyGroupDescription("Complete"))
End If
if (taskListView.CanGroup == true)
{
    // Group tasks by ProjectName...
    taskListView.GroupDescriptions.Add(new PropertyGroupDescription("ProjectName"));
    // Then group by Complete status.
    taskListView.GroupDescriptions.Add(new PropertyGroupDescription("Complete"));
}

Version Information

Silverlight

Supported in: 5, 4, 3

Platforms

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.