GridColumn.AppearanceHeader Property

Gets the appearance settings used to paint the column header.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraGrid.Columns

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraGrid.v24.1.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Win.Grid, DevExpress.Win.Navigation

Declaration

C#

[DXCategory("Appearance")]
[XtraSerializableProperty(XtraSerializationVisibility.Content, XtraSerializationFlags.DefaultValue)]
[XtraSerializablePropertyId(1)]
public AppearanceObject AppearanceHeader { get; }

VB.NET

<DXCategory("Appearance")>
<XtraSerializableProperty(XtraSerializationVisibility.Content, XtraSerializationFlags.DefaultValue)>
<XtraSerializablePropertyId(1)>
Public ReadOnly Property AppearanceHeader As AppearanceObject

Property Value

Type	Description
AppearanceObject	An AppearanceObject object representing the column header’s appearance settings.

Remarks

The AppearanceHeader property contains appearance settings of individual column headers. Use the GridView.Appearance.HeaderPanel property to customize appearance settings of all column headers in the View.

You can also handle the GridView.CustomDrawColumnHeader event to manually paint column headers.

Tip

Column headers support DX Skin Colors. You can use DX Skin Colors to specify the background color of column headers (GridColumn.AppearanceHeader.BackColor).

Related GitHub Examples

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C#

winforms-grid-custom-print-cells-headers-in-print-preview/CS/GridBeforePrint/MyGridViewPrintInfo.cs#L30

AppearanceObject temp = new AppearanceObject();
AppearanceHelper.Combine(temp, new AppearanceObject[] { col.Column.AppearanceHeader, View.Appearance.HeaderPanel, AppearancePrint.HeaderPanel });
SetDefaultBrickStyle(graph, Bricks.Create(temp, BorderSide.All, temp.BorderColor, 1));

VB.NET

winforms-grid-custom-print-cells-headers-in-print-preview/VB/GridBeforePrint/MyGridViewPrintInfo.vb#L31

Dim temp As New AppearanceObject()
AppearanceHelper.Combine(temp, New AppearanceObject() {col.Column.AppearanceHeader, View.Appearance.HeaderPanel, AppearancePrint.HeaderPanel})
SetDefaultBrickStyle(graph, Bricks.Create(temp, BorderSide.All, temp.BorderColor, 1))