I want to enable the user to highlight a row on the WPF DataGrid and press delete key to delete the row.

  • the functionality is already built into the UI of the grid, so to the user, the row disappears
  • I currently handle this on the SelectionChanged event (code below)
  • I loop through all the "e.RemovedItems" and delete them with LINQ

Problem is: even when you simply select a row and move off of it, selection change is fired and that row is in e.RemovedItems (which is odd, why would simply selecting something put it in a RemovedItems container?).

So I am looking for a DeleteKeyPressed event so I can simply handle it. What is that event called?

I am using the March 2009 toolkit.

XAML:

<Grid DockPanel.Dock="Bottom">
    <toolkit:DataGrid x:Name="TheDataGrid" 
                      SelectionChanged="TheDataGrid_SelectionChanged"
                      AutoGenerateColumns="True"
                      RowEditEnding="TheDataGrid_RowEditEnding"/>

code-behind:

private void TheDataGrid_SelectionChanged(object sender, System.Windows.Controls.SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.RemovedItems.Count > 0)
    {
        Message.Text = "The following were removed: ";
        foreach (object obj in e.RemovedItems)
        {
            Customer customer = obj as Customer;
            Message.Text += customer.ContactName + ",";
            _db.Order_Details.DeleteAllOnSubmit(
                customer.Orders.SelectMany(o => o.Order_Details));
            _db.Orders.DeleteAllOnSubmit(customer.Orders);
            _db.Customers.DeleteOnSubmit(customer);
        } 
    }

    try
    {
        _db.SubmitChanges();
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Message.Text = ex.Message;
    }
}

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