Multiple Data Types On The Same DataGrid (Infragistics XamDataGrid)

Today I want to share with you some interesting stuff.
Recently my company started to work with Infragistics WPF controls.
My boss asked me to check a possibility to show in the same datagrid data of different types.
For instance we an XML with following data:

<datas xmlns="">
    <data type="Imaging">
        <title>Imaging stuff</title>                            
        <images>
            <img colour="blue" id="img1" size="122" />
            <img colour="blue" id="img2" size="122" />
            <img colour="blue" id="img3" size="122" />
        </images>
    </data>

    <data type="Encounter">
        <title>Encounter stuff</title>                            
        <parameters>
            <parameter id="qw" xx="12" yy="123" zz="1234"></parameter>
            <parameter id="qz" xx="12" yy="123" zz="1234"></parameter>
            <parameter id="qa" xx="12" yy="123" zz="1234"></parameter>
            <parameter id="qd" xx="12" yy="123" zz="1234"></parameter>
        </parameters>
    </data>
</datas>

As you can see Imaging and Encounter have different subcategories with different attributes and my objective is to show this data in the same datagrid control.

What Is WPF

• WPF aka Windows Presentation Foundation
• The main purpose of WPF is to give to a programmer or designer a possibility to build rich GUI applications
• Actually WPF came to replace WinForms
• WPF is part of .Net Framework 3.0 or higher

Some basic stuff about WPF

• In order to begin write your WPF application you can open Visual Studio and chose project type named "WPF Application"
• GUI consists of two files - *.xaml and code-behind *.cs
• XAML file is actually an XML which describes the GUI
• One of the strongest side of WPF concept is logical separation of appearance and behavior

What you should know before starting to write your first WPF application?

• Forget about how you wrote your WinForms applications, in WPF it is all about the bindings
• Before you start to write your first WPF application you MUST to read about MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel pattern), believe me it`s super important
• If you listened to my advice then your code-behind file *.cs will be almost empty, all the GUI logic is configured in *.xaml file and all GUI elements should be bonded to relevant ViewModel
• And again NEVER write GUI logic in your code-behind file *.cs

Well that`s it for to today, gotta run, have a lot work to do.

If you have questions, please write me in comments section.

Cheers!