Displaying data in a customized DataGrid
Displaying data is probably the most straightforward task we can ask the DataGrid to do for us. In this recipe, we'll create a collection of data and hand it over to the DataGrid for display. While the DataGrid may seem to have a rather fixed layout, there are many options available on this control that we can use to customize it.
In this recipe, we'll focus on getting the data to show up in the DataGrid and customize it to our likings.
Getting ready
In this recipe, we'll start from an empty Silverlight application. The finished solution for this recipe can be found in the Chapter04/Datagrid_Displaying_Data_Completed folder in the code bundle that is available on the Packt website.
How to do it...
We'll create ...
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