VisualBrick.BrickOwner Property

Gets the owner of this brick.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraPrinting

Assembly: DevExpress.Printing.v18.2.Core.dll

Declaration

C#

public IBrickOwner BrickOwner { get; protected set; }

VB.NET

Public Property BrickOwner As IBrickOwner

Property Value

Type	Description
IBrickOwner	An object, which implements the IBrickOwner interface.

Remarks

Note that you can’t use the BrickOwner property to set a brick’s owner. Instead, a brick’s owner can be specified in the following ways:

• When creating a new brick instance, you may pass a brick’s owner to its constructor as a brick parameter.
• When a brick is added to the Bricks collections of an object, implementing the IBrickOwner interface.

Related GitHub Examples

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C#

reporting-winforms-best-fit-table-column-width/CS/ReportHelper/ReportHelper.cs#L97

while(iterator.MoveNext()) {
    if(iterator.CurrentBrick is VisualBrick && ((VisualBrick)iterator.CurrentBrick).BrickOwner is XRTableCell) {
        XRTableCell cell = ((VisualBrick)iterator.CurrentBrick).BrickOwner as XRTableCell;

Reporting_how-to-implement-editing-in-the-preview-form-e26/CS/XtraReport1.cs#L16

Form2 frm = new Form2();
XRLabel label = e.Brick.BrickOwner as XRLabel;
string fieldName = label.DataBindings["Text"].DataMember.Substring(label.DataBindings["Text"].DataMember.LastIndexOf('.') + 1);

VB.NET

reporting-winforms-best-fit-table-column-width/VB/ReportHelper/ReportHelper.vb#L96

Do While iterator.MoveNext()
    If TypeOf iterator.CurrentBrick Is VisualBrick AndAlso TypeOf (CType(iterator.CurrentBrick, VisualBrick)).BrickOwner Is XRTableCell Then
        Dim cell As XRTableCell = TryCast(CType(iterator.CurrentBrick, VisualBrick).BrickOwner, XRTableCell)

Reporting_how-to-implement-editing-in-the-preview-form-e26/VB/XtraReport1.vb#L18

Dim frm As New Form2()
Dim label As XRLabel = TryCast(e.Brick.BrickOwner, XRLabel)
Dim fieldName As String = label.DataBindings("Text").DataMember.Substring(label.DataBindings("Text").DataMember.LastIndexOf("."c) + 1)