Steve,

Datasource helper:

public static customdatasourcehelper configdsh = new customdatasourcehelper();

This is the object that is populated multiple times as teh datasource:

public class VirtualMachineObject : NSObject
                {
                    [Export("name")]
                    public string name { get; set; }
                    [Export("status")]
                    public string status { get; set; }
                    [Export("guestname")]
                    public string guestname { get; set; }
                    [Export("memory")]
                    public string memory { get; set; }
                    [Export("cpus")]
                    public string cpus { get; set; }
                    [Export("swapfile")]
                    public string swapfile { get; set; }
                    [Export("toolsversionstatus")]
                    public string toolsversionstatus { get; set; }
                    [Export("configStatus")]
                    public string configStatus { get; set; }
                    [Export("uuid")]
                    public string uuid { get; set;}
                }

And the grid configuration:

public override void ViewDidLoad ()
        {
            base.ViewDidLoad ();

            // Create a new gridview
            IGGridView configGrid = new IGGridView( new RectangleF(0,0,(this.View.Bounds.Width),this.View.Bounds.Height),IGGridViewStyle.IGGridViewStyleDefault);

            configGrid.AllowHorizontalBounce = true;
            configGrid.AlwaysBounceVertical = true;

            // Enable flexible width so that the grid feels its parents view
            configGrid.AutoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizing.FlexibleDimensions;

            // Enable 2way Scrolling
            //Grid.common.gridconfig.enableScrolling (true, true, configGrid);

            // Configure grid theme
            configGrid = configuretheme.themegrid(configGrid);

            // Add gridview to the current view
            this.View.Add(configGrid);

            // Sort out custom column headers
            if (common.customcolumnheaders.Count != 0) {
                configdsh = common.configureheadertitles (configdsh, common.customcolumnheaders);
            }

            // Attempting to override column width
            configGrid.ColumnWidth = IGColumnWidth.CreateNumericColumnWidth (200f, 200f);

            // The following code is used to enable the filtering popup from the navbar button
            // Configure the popover control for the filter button.
            gridfilterpopup content = new gridfilterpopup();
            content.callinggriddsh = configdsh;
            content.callinggridcontroller = configGrid;
            content.callingcustomcolumnheaders = common.customcolumnheaders;
            filterpopover = new UIPopoverController (content);
            filterpopover.PopoverContentSize = new SizeF(320,320);

            // Configure the navigation controller for this view

            // Configure a filter button
                UIBarButtonItem filterbtn = new UIBarButtonItem (UIBarButtonSystemItem.Action);
                    filterbtn.Clicked += delegate {
                        // If the popover is already showing from the bar button item, dismiss it. Otherwise, present it.
                            if (!filterpopover.PopoverVisible)
                                filterpopover.PresentFromBarButtonItem (filterbtn, UIPopoverArrowDirection.Any, true);
                            else
                                filterpopover.Dismiss (true);
                            };

            this.NavigationItem.SetRightBarButtonItem (filterbtn, true);

            // If we want the first column locked in place..
            IGGridViewColumnDefinition col1 = new IGGridViewColumnDefinition ("name");
            configdsh.FixedLeftColumns.Add (col1);

            // Add data to the grid
            configdsh.Data = common.griddatasource.ToArray();
            configGrid.DataSource = configdsh;

        }

Hey Paul, 

Glad you got it working!

One way, you could potentially do that, is to create your columns. 

Then pull the first column from your ColumnDefinitions (delete it) and add it to the Fixed Columns. 

-SteveZ

Hmm.. interesting. Any chance you could provide a small sample at some point?

Sure. 

Basically, using the code you provided, it would look like this: 

            // In this method, you're creating all of your columns (b/c you're not AutoGenerating)
            if (common.customcolumnheaders.Count != 0) {
                configdsh = common.configureheadertitles (configdsh, common.customcolumnheaders);
            }

            // Remove the first column
            IGGridViewColumnDefinition col = configdsh.ColumnDefinitions [0];
            configdsh.ColumnDefinitions.RemoveObject (0);

            // Mark that column as fixed
            configdsh.FixedLeftColumns.Add (col);

And thats it. 

-SteveZ

Hi Steve,

Your answer includes something that caused me an issue originally (and led me to ask)

            IGGridViewColumnDefinition col = configdsh.ColumnDefinitions [0];

the above line is not valid; I receive the following error:

'Cannot apply indexing with [] to an expression of type Monotouch.Foundation.NSMutableArray'

Sorry!

Thats what i get for sending code i didn't test :)

This should do the trick:

IGGridViewColumnDefinition col = new IGGridViewColumnDefinition(configdsh.ColumnDefinitions.ValueAt(0));
            configdsh.ColumnDefinitions.RemoveObject (0);
            configdsh.FixedLeftColumns.Add (col);

-SteveZ