The headers are just buttons. Like any button, you can register to the Click
event to capture those clicks. Just set a style targeting DataGridColumnHeader
and add a Click
event handler. Then within the handler, you have access to the header directly via the sender
. You could then get the Column
associated with that header and other information associated with it.
<DataGrid>
<DataGrid.Resources>
<Style TargetType="DataGridColumnHeader">
<EventSetter Event="Click" Handler="columnHeader_Click" />
</Style>
</DataGrid.Resources>
</DataGrid>
Then in the code:
private void columnHeader_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
var columnHeader = sender as DataGridColumnHeader;
if (columnHeader != null)
{
// do stuff
}
}
Looking further into the DataGrid
, I noticed that there's a ColumnHeaderStyle
property. I think it would be a better idea to apply the style through this property instead.
<DataGrid>
<DataGrid.ColumnHeaderStyle>
<Style TargetType="DataGridColumnHeader">
<EventSetter Event="Click" Handler="columnHeader_Click" />
</Style>
</DataGrid.ColumnHeaderStyle>
</DataGrid>
EventSetter
before, very handy. I have a followup question, do you know if it's possible to get the style behaviour whenCanUserSortColumns="False"
so the headers respond to mouse hover and show the sort direction, or will I need to restyle these myself? – Brett Ryan May 6 '11 at 3:05CanUserSortColumns
toFalse
otherwise the control will try to perform the sort false, however I want the nice "hover" affect when moving the cursor over the column header, and would like the "up/down" arrow indicating sort direction (though the latter is less important). Your help is very much appreciated. – Brett Ryan May 6 '11 at 4:04