Delete a row in WPF DataGrid

Question

I have a datagrid with a delete icon as one column and update icon as another column. On click of update, the first cell is set on focus.

On click on delete I want to delete that selected row, but I get the error "Operation is not valid while ItemsSource is in use. Access and modify elements with ItemsControl.ItemsSource instead." with the following code:

XAML:

<DataGrid Name="grdList" Margin="3,16,0,5" RowHeight="30" ColumnWidth="*"
          ItemsSource="{Binding  List,Mode=TwoWay}" Width="434" 
          AutoGenerateColumns="False" 
          CanUserAddRows="False" AlternatingRowBackground="#FFB9BBFF">
    <DataGrid.Columns>
        <DataGridTextColumn MinWidth="0" Header="Property"
                            Binding="{Binding Path=Property}"/>

        <DataGridTemplateColumn Header="Update"  MinWidth="50" MaxWidth="50">
            <DataGridTemplateColumn.CellStyle>
                <Style TargetType="DataGridCell">
                    <EventSetter Event="PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown"
                                 Handler="EventSetter_OnHandler"/>
                </Style>
            </DataGridTemplateColumn.CellStyle>
            <DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <Image Source="Icons/Update.jpg"/>
                </DataTemplate>
            </DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
        </DataGridTemplateColumn>

        <DataGridTemplateColumn Header="Delete"  MinWidth="50" MaxWidth="50">
            <DataGridTemplateColumn.CellStyle>
                <Style TargetType="DataGridCell">
                    <EventSetter Event="PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown"
                                 Handler="EventSetter_OnHandler"/>
                </Style>
            </DataGridTemplateColumn.CellStyle>
            <DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <Image Source="Icons/Delete.jpg"/>
                </DataTemplate>
            </DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
        </DataGridTemplateColumn>
    </DataGrid.Columns>
</DataGrid>

C#:

private void EventSetter_OnHandler(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
    object source = e.OriginalSource;
    if (source.GetType() == typeof(Image))
    {
        grdList.IsReadOnly = false;

        selectedRow = FindParent<DataGridRow>(sender as DependencyObject);

        if (((DataGridCell)sender).Column.Header.ToString().ToUpperInvariant() == "DELETE")
        {
            grdList.Items.Remove(selectedRow);
        }
        else
        {
            DataGridCellsPanel panel = FindVisualChild<DataGridCellsPanel>(selectedRow);

            DataGridCell dgc = panel.Children[0] as DataGridCell; 
            dgc.Focus();
            grdList.BeginEdit();

            e.Handled = true;
        }
    }
}

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Answer 1

I suspect on Delete i.e. in EventSetter_OnHandler, you must be removing items from the Items collection of dataGrid. Something like this:

grdList.Items.Remove(someItem);

But as the error is self explanatory

"Operation is not valid while ItemsSource is in use. Access and modify elements with ItemsControl.ItemsSource instead."

You have binded ItemsSource to some collection, so you need to remove item from it. You can't modify the Items collection directly when binding ItemsSource with some collection. It should be something like:

List.Remove(someItem);