Dynamic Button in WPF DataGrid - CellTemplateSelector

Question

I have a datagrid in which I want to add a button to each line. This button should have another function depending on a condition. The datagrid consists of a list of some files that can be installed or, if already present, uninstalled using the button. Therefore the button should be called either "Install" or "Uninstall".

I created the following xaml

...
<Grid.Resources>            
    <local:ButtonTemplateSelector x:Key="buttonTemplateSelector">
        <local:ButtonTemplateSelector.InstallButtonTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <Button x:Name="btn_installSnippet" Click="btn_installSnippet_Click">Install</Button>
        </DataTemplate>
        </local:ButtonTemplateSelector.InstallButtonTemplate>
        <local:ButtonTemplateSelector.UninstallButtonTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <Button x:Name="btn_uninstallSnippet" Click="btn_uninstallSnippet_Click">Uninstall</Button>
        </DataTemplate>
            </local:ButtonTemplateSelector.UninstallButtonTemplate>
    </local:ButtonTemplateSelector>
</Grid.Resources>
...
<DataGrid x:Name="dataGrid_newViews" ItemsSource="{Binding}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="148" Margin="40,152,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="685" AutoGenerateColumns="True" SelectedCellsChanged="Datagrid_SelectedCellsChanged" CanUserAddRows="false" Grid.ColumnSpan="2">
    <DataGrid.Columns>
        <DataGridTemplateColumn Header="Button" CellTemplateSelector="{StaticResource buttonTemplateSelector}" />
    </DataGrid.Columns>
</DataGrid>

In my main code, I have created the following:

public class ButtonTemplateSelector : DataTemplateSelector
{
    public DataTemplate InstallButtonTemplate { get; set; }
    public DataTemplate UninstallButtonTemplate { get; set; }

    public override System.Windows.DataTemplate SelectTemplate(object item, System.Windows.DependencyObject container)
    {
      return InstallButtonTemplate;
    }
}

Here I am completely stuck, on how to get a value from the row (from datagrid binding), to write the condition if InstallButtonTemplate or UninstallButtonTemplate should be returned.

You should look at `item` parameter, cast to type, which is bound to data grid rows and check it's properties — Pavel Anikhouski, Sep 21 '20 at 10:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 21 '20 at 11:57

You have pretty much done all the work, one piece that is missing is to cast your object item parameter to the data type of the item in the collection you are binding to like this:

public class ButtonTemplateSelector : DataTemplateSelector
{
    public DataTemplate InstallButtonTemplate { get; set; }
    public DataTemplate UninstallButtonTemplate { get; set; }

    public override System.Windows.DataTemplate SelectTemplate(object item, System.Windows.DependencyObject container)
    {
      var myItem = (YourType)item;
      if (myItem.FilePresent == true){
         return UninstallButtonTemplate ;
      }
      return InstallButtonTemplate;
    }
}

Thanks, I do understand what you mean, but unfortunately I do not get any properties of the casted object item yet. I will try on... — Gardinero, Sep 21 '20 at 13:15

Dynamic Button in WPF DataGrid - CellTemplateSelector

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