Bilal Haidar is now ready with the second installment of his series Columns and Rows on the ASPNETPRO magazine. If you are not familiar with the previous installment, you can first read it: Columns & Rows Part I: Silverlight 2.0 DataGrid Properties.
Having a Silverlight DataGrid control displaying its columns in an auto-generated fashion does not satisfy most developers. Rather, it is usually the case that developers require in-depth control over the DataGrid columns—to decide what to show, what to hide, and even to customize the appearance of the columns.
The Silverlight DataGrid gives developers the opportunity to manipulate and configure its columns in an easy and flexible way. Several built-in columns ship with Silverlight “out of the box” and within the DataGrid control to help in the customization process.