Property Grid Custom Search Box

Question

I have a PropertyGrid with a lot of nested items. How can I make a searchbox to filter and display only the items matching the search string?

Pasty: I am currently passing focus manually to an item by using predefined strings. I would like to rather have a searchbox which can dynamically pull in "similar" items. — Gautham, May 25 '14 at 21:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

Two ways -

Your best option is to implement ICustomTypeDescriptor interface and use the GetProperties() method to filter visible rows in PropertyGrid.

If you want to hack your way around - Using reflection set Browsable Attribute to false. Sample code

Here are some sample articles/links with code to implement ICustomTypeDescriptor -

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