Devexpress Gridcontrol Multiselect without using indicator column

Question

Is there any way to allow the user to do a multiple row selection just by clicking and dragging along cells within the actual grid? I.e. Without using the indicator column?

Answer 1

You can do that by cell using just properties by setting the following properties located in Gridview.Options

 Multiselect = True
 MultiSelectMode = CellSelect
 UseIndicatorForSelection = False

If you need to do it by entire rows, you are stuck writing that functionality yourself using GridView.CalcHitInfo and various events.

Answer 2

To achieve this behavior, you need to handle the MouseDown and MouseMove events and select rows programmatically. You also need to enable the multi-selection feature and switch the multi-selection mode to "CellSelect" to be able to select individual cells.

download the attached sample from this link and customize it to implement your functionality...

MultiSelect Rows & Cells simultaneously

check the following thread, which using indicator but you can customize it hiding indicator and setting select option to cellselect etc... "mulitiselect without CTRL key" on Devexpress..

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