Creating a table with Silverlight for Windows Phone 7

Question

I\'d like to create a table on WP7. This is my current approach using a ListBox with a Grid as the data template.

Answer 1

This is a tricky problem! In WPF there exists the concept of a SharedSizeGroup, which allows you to share column widths across multiple grids, but this is not available in silverlight.

There are a few workarounds on the web:

http://www.scottlogic.co.uk/blog/colin/2010/11/using-a-grid-as-the-panel-for-an-itemscontrol/

http://databaseconsultinggroup.com/blog/2009/05/simulating_sharedsizegroup_in.html

Although neither are simple solutions.

You might also try Mike's AutoGrid:

http://whydoidoit.com/2010/10/06/automatic-grid-layout-for-silverlight/