How can I:
- right-align the text in the ID column
- make each of the columns auto size according to the text length of the cell with the longest visible data?
Here is the code:
<ListView Name="lstCustomers" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Collection}">
<ListView.View>
<GridView>
<GridViewColumn Header="ID" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Id}" Width="40"/>
<GridViewColumn Header="First Name" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding FirstName}" Width="100" />
<GridViewColumn Header="Last Name" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding LastName}"/>
</GridView>
</ListView.View>
</ListView>
partial answer:
Thanks Kjetil, the GridViewColumn.CellTemplate works well and the Auto Width works of course but when the ObservativeCollection "Collection" is updated with longer-than-column-width data, the column sizes do not update themselves so that is only a solution for the initial display of data:
<ListView Name="lstCustomers" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Collection}">
<ListView.View>
<GridView>
<GridViewColumn Header="ID" Width="Auto">
<GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Id}" TextAlignment="Right" Width="40"/>
</DataTemplate>
</GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
</GridViewColumn>
<GridViewColumn Header="First Name" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding FirstName}" Width="Auto" />
<GridViewColumn Header="Last Name" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding LastName}" Width="Auto"/>
</GridView>
</ListView.View>
</ListView>
Best Answer
To make each of the columns autosize you can set Width="Auto" on the GridViewColumn.
To right-align the text in the ID column you can create a cell template using a TextBlock and set the TextAlignment. Then set the ListViewItem.HorizontalContentAlignment (using a style with a setter on the ListViewItem) to make the cell template fill the entire GridViewCell.
Maybe there is a simpler solution, but this should work.
Note: the solution requires both HorizontalContentAlignment=Stretch in Window.Resources and TextAlignment=Right in the CellTemplate.