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How to: Prevent Group Rows from being Collapsed

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The following example shows how to customize whether a particular group row can be collapsed.In this example, the 'Status: Invalidated' group row is prevented from being collapsed, and the full collapsing is disabled. To do this, the GroupRowCollapsing event is handled, and the event parameter's Allow property is set to false when the RowHandle property returns the 'Status: Invalidated' row's handle, or an invalid handle (this happens when all group rows are about to be collapsed).

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace DXExample.DemoData {
    public enum InvoiceStatus { Ordered, Payed, Shipped, Delivered, Invalidated }
    public class Invoice {
        public int ID { get; set; }
        public string ProductName { get; set; }
        public double Price { get; set; }
        public DateTime OrderDate { get; set; }
        public double Discount { get; set; }
        public bool IsUrgent { get; set; }
        public InvoiceStatus Status { get; set; }
        static public List<Invoice> GetData() {
            List<Invoice> data = new List<Invoice>();

            data.Add(new Invoice() { ID = 0, ProductName = "Tofu", IsUrgent = false,
                Price = 235.54, Discount = 9.4, Status = InvoiceStatus.Invalidated,
                OrderDate = new DateTime(2009, 3, 12) });
            data.Add(new Invoice() { ID = 1, ProductName = "Ravioli Angelo", IsUrgent = true,
                Price = 178.45, Discount = 6.1, Status = InvoiceStatus.Delivered,
                OrderDate = new DateTime(2009, 2, 9) });
            data.Add(new Invoice() { ID = 2, ProductName = "Geitost", IsUrgent = false,
                Price = 89.98, Discount = 5.4, Status = InvoiceStatus.Payed,
                OrderDate = new DateTime(2009, 4, 1) });
            data.Add(new Invoice() { ID = 3, ProductName = "Chang", IsUrgent = true,
                Price = 189.33, Discount = 18.2, Status = InvoiceStatus.Shipped,
                OrderDate = new DateTime(2009, 5, 23) });
            data.Add(new Invoice() { ID = 4, ProductName = "Inlagd Sill", IsUrgent = false, 
                Price = 509.10, Discount = 22.2, Status = InvoiceStatus.Ordered,
                OrderDate = new DateTime(2009, 6, 30) });
            data.Add(new Invoice() { ID = 5, ProductName = "Alice Mutton", IsUrgent = true,
                Price = 791.18, Discount = 24.4, Status = InvoiceStatus.Invalidated,
                OrderDate = new DateTime(2009, 5, 7) });

            return data;
        }
    }
}