How to get WPF gridview row values programmatically?

Question

We have lots of ListViews with a GridView view that are bound to a ViewModelCollection<T> . Now I need to get the displayed values (as string) from the GridView . It seems that I cannot access the rows from GridView class.

I don't know what type the GridView is showing, so I cannot use ListView.ItemCollection either. Also I don't know the name of the GridView because the code isn't in the code behind (trying to follow MVVM pattern). I just need the values that are being displayed, so that I can export them to Excel sheet (the column order is also important).

Any suggestions how to approach this?

Answer 1

I would use the ViewModelCollection to get the data. If you lose formatting, just apply same formatting rules on the fields. Better, I would expose string properties in the ViewModelCollection with respective formatting, and bind the grid view to them.

Answer 2

By using the DataRowView you can get the each and every cell value.

DataRowView row = (DataRowView)grid_view.SelectedItems[0];
cmbx_name.Text = row.Row.ItemArray[0].ToString();
lbl_date.Text = row.Row.ItemArray[1].ToString();
txt_location.Text = row.Row.ItemArray[2].ToString();
txt_vehicleno.Text = row.Row.ItemArray[5].ToString();
cmbx_source.Text = row.Row.ItemArray[6].ToString();
orderid = row.Row.ItemArray[7].ToString();
custid = row.Row.ItemArray[8].ToString();