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How to paste the data by custom column order instead of the first column in the SfDataGrid when SelectionUnit is a Row?

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When SelectionUnit is a Row, the data can be pasted only from the first column, by default. Now, you can paste the copied data anywhere in the WPF DataGrid by deriving a new class from GridCutCopyPaste and overriding the PasteToRow virtual method.


C# 

public class CustomCopyPaste : GridCutCopyPaste
    {
        public CustomCopyPaste(SfDataGrid sfgrid)
            : base(sfgrid)
        {
        }
        protected override void PasteToRow(object clipboardcontent, object selectedRecords)
        {
            //Splits the row into number of cells by using \t.
            clipboardcontent = Regex.Split(clipboardcontent.ToString(), @"\t");
            var copyValue = (string[])clipboardcontent;
            //For Row selection
            if (dataGrid.SelectionUnit == GridSelectionUnit.Row)
            {
                int columnindex = 0;
                //Gets the currentcell column index.
                var index = this.dataGrid.SelectionController.CurrentCellManager.CurrentCell.ColumnIndex;
                foreach (var column in dataGrid.Columns)
                {
                    if (index >= dataGrid.Columns.Count)
                        return;
                    if (copyValue.Count() <= this.dataGrid.Columns.IndexOf(column))
                        break;
                    // Calls the PasteToCell method and passes the copied data and pastes the column index.
                    PasteToCell(selectedRecords, this.dataGrid.Columns[index], copyValue[columnindex]);
                    index++;
                    columnindex++;
                }
            }
        }
    }

 

You can customize the GridCutCopyPaste class and assign its instance to the SfDataGird.GridCopyPasteproperty as described in the following code.

C#

this.sfdatagrid.GridCopyPaste = new CustomCopyPaste(sfdatagrid);

 

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Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to paste the data by custom column order instead of the first column in the DataGrid when selection unit is a Row.

You can refer to our WPF DataGrid feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations and documentation, and how to quickly get started for configuration specifications. You can also explore our WPF DataGrid example to understand how to create and manipulate data.

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