Force a filter on a WpfDataGrid

My application has a search dialog box that has a WpfDataGrid. I need ability to initialize the grid with some filters already applied. I tried the following code, right after InitializeComponent in the Dialog Box's constructor:

        // Find column

        var qColumn = (from column in gridItems.Columns
                   where column.PropertyName == "MfgName"
                   select column);

        // Set Filter

        WpfDataGrid.DataGridColumn objMfgNameColumn = qColumn.First();
        WpfDataGrid.StartsWithFilter objFilter = new WpfDataGrid.StartsWithFilter("WEG", false);
        objMfgNameColumn.Filter = objFilter;

When the dialog box displays, "WEG" appears in the column's filter, which is the desired behavior. However, the filter is not applied. How do I force the filter to be applied?

Thanks

Alex Dunn

Hello Alex

Thanks for pointing this out. This was a bug in the DataGrid where the filter expression was not being updated when the columns collection changed. This bug will be fixed in the next nightly build which will be available around 1200GMT and will be downloadable from your account page: http://www.mindscapehq.com/store/myaccount

-Jason Fauchelle