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How to add the Button and Text in GridTextColumn in WinForms DataGrid (SfDataGrid)?

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By default, you can add either text or button in a GridColumn but, you can add both button and text in a column by customizing GridTextBoxCellRenderer. In the custom renderer, the OnRender method can be overridden to draw buttons in the cells.

 

public class GridTextButtonCellRenderer : GridTextBoxCellRenderer
{
public GridTextButtonCellRenderer(SfDataGrid dataGrid)
{
    IsEditable = true;
    DataGrid = dataGrid;
}
protected override void OnRender(Graphics paint, Rectangle cellRect, string cellValue, CellStyleInfo style, DataColumnBase column, RowColumnIndex rowColumnIndex)
    {
        base.OnRender(paint, cellRect, cellValue, style, column, rowColumnIndex);
 
        //To set the rectangle for button in the cell.
        var rect = new Rectangle(cellRect.Location.X + cellRect.Width - 22, cellRect.Location.Y, 20, cellRect.Height);
 
        (column.GridColumn as GridTextButtonColumn).CellButton = new CellButton();
        (column.GridColumn as GridTextButtonColumn).CellButton.Image = Image.FromFile(@"..\..\Images\icons.png");
        (column.GridColumn as GridTextButtonColumn).CellButton.TextImageRelation = TextImageRelation.ImageBeforeText;
 
        PropertyInfo highlightedItemProperty = (column.GridColumn as GridTextButtonColumn).CellButton.GetType().GetProperties(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance).Single(pi => pi.Name == "Bounds");
        highlightedItemProperty.SetValue((column.GridColumn as GridTextButtonColumn).CellButton, rect);
 
        //To draw the button in cell
        DrawButton(paint, cellRect, rect, "...", new ButtonCellStyleInfo(), column, rowColumnIndex);
 
}
}

 

//To add custom renderer into SfDataGrid.
this.sfDataGrid.CellRenderers.Add("TextButton", new GridTextButtonCellRenderer(this.sfDataGrid));
 
//To add TextButtonColumn in grid
this.sfDataGrid.Columns.Add(new GridTextButtonColumn() { MappingName = "CustomerID", Width = 140 });

 

Cell with button and text

View sample in GitHub

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