PropertyGrid.Refresh

Hi Matt,

If you are populating Items explicitly, then DataFilter cannot be used. The PropertyGrid builds a ListCollectionView from several of it's properties (such as SelectedObject(s), Properties, AreAttachedPropertiesBrowsable, AreInheritedPropertiesBrowsable, etc) and then sets ItemsSource to that collection view. The DataFactory is used to generate the "items" and the DataFilter is applied to the ListCollectionView.Filter property.

Calling Refresh causes the PropertyGrid to regenerate the ListCollectionView, which in turn reapplies the DataFilter.

So if you use Items or ItemsSource directly, then you'd need to add your own filtering logic by using a ListCollectionView and hooking into the Filter property.

Strangely enough, the DataFilter does work when populating Items directly. I can attach a collection of PropertyGridItems to Items, and a DataFilter, and the view will reflect the filter.

For some reason, the PropertyGrid simply doesn't detect when the DataFilter changes once it has been attached.

Hi Matt,

If you could please put together a small sample project that reproduces the issue and email it over to our support address then we can take a closer look.

The DataFilter is only referenced in one location in the PropertyGrid code and that's in a private callback that we assign to the Filter property of a ListCollectionView we create based on the results of calling DataFactory.GetDataAccessors.

The Items and ItemsSource properties are not used by the DataFactory at all. The PropertyGrid.Properties collection is used by the DataFactory, which is the default content property. But it sounds like you are not using that.

But again, if you can put together a small project we can clear this up much more quickly.