Not able to see anything when used with column groups

Hello, Harsha,

I would recommend you to have a look at the following help article demonstrating how to properly setup a ColumnGroupsViewDefinition: https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/controls/gridview/view-definitions/column-groups-view 

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Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,
Dess | Tech Support Engineer, Sr.
Progress Telerik

HI Dess,

     Actually i took the same example if you see my Project Example.png. I was confused that why its not working. So i posted question.

Regards

Harsha D

Hello, Harsha,

According to the provided screenshots, it seems that your code is a bit different than the one referred in the help article. Instead of adding to the ColumnNames collection,  you are adding to the Columns collection which I suppose is the reason for not obtaining the desired output. Do you have any columns added to RadGridView?

Back in the beginning of 2016 we removed all obsolete properties for the GridViewColumnGroupRow, e.g. the Columns collection (Obsolete as of Q2 2015). It was announced to use the ColumnNames collection instead.

I have prepared a sample project for your reference. Please give it a try and see how it works on your end.

Regards,
Dess | Tech Support Engineer, Sr.
Progress Telerik

HI Dess,

   I am using version 2014.3.1202.20, may be thats why. Is there any workaround for this in the version which i am using?

Regards

Harsha D

Hi, Harsha,

I would highly encourage you to upgrade to as latest version as possible in order to benefit from all the introduced improvements affecting the view definitions in RadGridView.

However, for the specified version (2014.3.1202) you can find below the relevant code:

            this.customersTableAdapter.Fill(this.nwindDataSet.Customers);

            this.radGridView1.AutoGenerateColumns = true;
            this.radGridView1.DataSource = this.customersBindingSource;
            this.radGridView1.BestFitColumns();
             
            ColumnGroupsViewDefinition view = new ColumnGroupsViewDefinition();
            view.ColumnGroups.Add(new GridViewColumnGroup("Customer Contact"));
            view.ColumnGroups.Add(new GridViewColumnGroup("Details"));
            view.ColumnGroups[1].Groups.Add(new GridViewColumnGroup("Address"));
            view.ColumnGroups[1].Groups.Add(new GridViewColumnGroup("Contact"));
            view.ColumnGroups[0].Rows.Add(new GridViewColumnGroupRow());
            view.ColumnGroups[0].Rows[0].Columns.Add(this.radGridView1.Columns["CompanyName"]);
            view.ColumnGroups[0].Rows[0].Columns.Add(this.radGridView1.Columns["ContactName"]);
            view.ColumnGroups[0].Rows[0].Columns.Add(this.radGridView1.Columns["ContactTitle"]);
            view.ColumnGroups[1].Groups[0].Rows.Add(new GridViewColumnGroupRow());
            view.ColumnGroups[1].Groups[0].Rows[0].Columns.Add(this.radGridView1.Columns["Address"]);
            view.ColumnGroups[1].Groups[0].Rows[0].Columns.Add(this.radGridView1.Columns["City"]);
            view.ColumnGroups[1].Groups[0].Rows[0].Columns.Add(this.radGridView1.Columns["Country"]);
            view.ColumnGroups[1].Groups[1].Rows.Add(new GridViewColumnGroupRow());
            view.ColumnGroups[1].Groups[1].Rows[0].Columns.Add(this.radGridView1.Columns["Phone"]);
            view.ColumnGroups[1].Groups[1].Rows[0].Columns.Add(this.radGridView1.Columns["Fax"]);
            radGridView1.ViewDefinition = view;

I hope this information helps.

Regards,
Dess | Tech Support Engineer, Sr.
Progress Telerik