Custom DataGridColumns: Access OwningGrid

[Marv51]

Sometimes, you want to build a custom DataGrid column. For example, because the ComboBoxColumn doesn't really fit my needs exactly.

But this quite difficult, because the you don't have access to the OwningGrid property on the DataGridColumn base class:

WindowsCommunityToolkit/Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.UI.Controls.DataGrid/DataGrid/DataGridColumn.cs

Line 802 in c4d62ee

internal DataGrid OwningGrid

Please consider changing this to at least protected internal. I think it could even be considered to make this property public.

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[jhertel0]

This would be helpful to me also, I was going to make a selector column, but I'm not able to because of this visibility of OwningGrid.

[michael-hawker]

@Marv51 @jhertel0 do you have some example code of the custom columns you've tried to build. Is there a reason you're going down that route vs. trying to use a templated column in XAML?

[jhertel0]

@michael-hawker Here is an example of what I was trying to do: https://gist.github.com/jhertel0/ae522d4cb642d97a4f293f5544ee1eaf

I can use the templated column but I'll have to repeat the same code in multiple places, its most likely what I'll end up having to do.