Extend the last column in a GridView

Hi, this is something that should be extremely simple but isn't -- or maybe I'm just missing something.

I want to make it so that all my GridView cells fill up ALL available horizontal space, and not leave any awkward whitespace on the right. Additionally I want to ensure that the columns size themselves to fit their contents. If anyone's been able to accomplish this I'd enormously appreciate any tips.

Thanks!
Rich

To make sure columns fit their content, specify the Width="Auto". To get one column to fill all the remaining space in the Grid use Width="*". For more details on Grid sizing, please check out this section of the SDK that discusses GridUnitTypes.

HTH,
Drew

I know how to resize a grid, but I'm talking about in the context of a ListView/GridView. If I try the following I get an error stating that "*" cannot be converted to a Length:

<ListView x:Name="PART_MyGrid" IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True" Width="Auto" Height="Auto" >

<ListView.View>

<GridView >

<GridViewColumn Header="Column1" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=Column1}" Width="Auto" />

<GridViewColumn Header="Column2" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=Column2}" Width="*" />

</GridView>

</ListView.View>

</ListView>

I want Column1 to display the full contents, and Column2 to extend all the way to the right edge of the grid.

Ahh, my mistake. I missed the "View" part of GridView.

Check out this thread. Despite the original poster giving up because the implementation provided by LeeD was not a 100% solution for him, the theory is still sound. All that needs to happen to support resizing of the list view is that the value converter needs to become a multi-value converter where the first parameter should be the ListView instance itself and the second its ActualWidth property.

HTH,
Drew

Thanks Drew

Guess I'll have to settle with that workaround for now. I just hope they have better support for this type of thing in v2.

Thanks again,

Rich