FilterComparisonOperator Property

Visual Basic (Declaration)
Visual Basic (Usage)
C#

<SRDescriptionAttribute("Indicates which condition is applied when filtering.")>
<DefaultValueAttribute()>
<SRCategoryAttribute("Behavior")>
Public Property FilterComparisonOperator As FilterComparisonOperator

Dim instance As FilteringTextBoxCell
Dim value As FilterComparisonOperator
 
instance.FilterComparisonOperator = value
 
value = instance.FilterComparisonOperator

[SRDescription("Indicates which condition is applied when filtering.")]
[DefaultValue()]
[SRCategory("Behavior")]
public FilterComparisonOperator FilterComparisonOperator {get; set;}

Property Value

One of the FilterComparisonOperator values. The default is FilterComparisonOperator.StartsWith.

Exception	Description
System.ComponentModel.InvalidEnumArgumentException	The specified value is not one of the FilterComparisonOperator values.

You can use the provided operator, or customize the comparison operation by implementing an System.Collections.IComparer and setting it to the CustomComparisonOperator property. If you customize the comparison operation, set this property to FilterComparisonOperator.Custom.

The following code example shows how to customize a filtering text box cell's behavior or appearance. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the FilteringTextBoxCell class.

C#

private Cell CreateTextFilterCell()
        {
            FilteringTextBoxCell filteringTextBoxCell = new FilteringTextBoxCell();

            filteringTextBoxCell.FilteringCellIndex = 0;
            filteringTextBoxCell.ComparisonType = StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase;
            filteringTextBoxCell.FilterComparisonOperator = FilterComparisonOperator.StartsWith;

            return filteringTextBoxCell;
        }

VB.NET

Private Function CreateTextFilterCell() As Cell
        Dim filteringTextBoxCell As New FilteringTextBoxCell()

        filteringTextBoxCell.FilteringCellIndex = 0
        filteringTextBoxCell.ComparisonType = StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase
        filteringTextBoxCell.FilterComparisonOperator = FilterComparisonOperator.StartsWith

        Return filteringTextBoxCell
    End Function

Target Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

Reference

FilteringTextBoxCell Class
FilteringTextBoxCell Members
CustomComparisonOperator Property