In the case where some of the columns are hidden and all of the columns' display indexes are changed, applying grouping could result in some of the cells from the columns that have custom CellTemplate to not receive it.

To work this around, you could manually change the widths of the columns by iterating the Columns collection as shown below:

foreach (var column in this.GridView.Columns)
{
    GridViewLength length = column.Width;

    if (length.IsAbsolute)
    {
        column.Width = new GridViewLength(length.Value + 0.00001);
    }
}

The Clear Filters option in the FieldFilterControl cannot be selected when the DefaultOperator1 is set in the FilterOperatorsLoading event of RadGridView. The FieldFilterControl is the element shown under the column header when the FilteringMode property of RadGridView is set to FilterRow. Setting e.DefaulteOperator1 in the FilterOperatorsLoading properly selects the corresponding filter in the drop down, but after that you cannot select Clear Filters when clicking on this option.

To work this around, you can use the CellLoaded event instead of FilterOperatorsLoading. This will allow you to get the FieldFilterControlViewModel and set its SelectedOperatorViewModel property.

private void manualGridView_CellLoaded(object sender, CellEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Cell is GridViewHeaderCell && e.Cell.Column.UniqueName == "MyColumn")
    {
        Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(new Action(() =>
        {
            var fieldFilter = e.Cell.FindChildByType<FieldFilterControl>();
            var viewModel = (FieldFilterControlViewModel)fieldFilter.DataContext;
            viewModel.SelectedOperatorViewModel = viewModel.AvailableOperatorViewModels.FirstOrDefault(x => x.FilterOperator == FilterOperator.IsLessThan);
        }));
    }
}

The height of the column footer is not updated properly to autofit the footer's content. Actually, this works when the footer content becomes bigger than the current (or the default) value, but if you change the content with a smaller one, the bigger height remains. In other words, the footer height autofits when the content becomes bigger but it doesn't decrease when the content becomes smaller after that.

private void gridView_CellLoaded(object sender, CellEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Cell is GridViewFooterCell)
    {
        var row = e.Cell.ParentRow;
        Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(new Action(() =>
        {
            var aggregatesList = row.ChildrenOfType<AggregateResultsList>(); // the exact type of children that should be used to get the new height may vary based on your column Footer contents
            if (aggregatesList.Count() > 0)
            {
                var height = aggregatesList.Max(x => x.ActualHeight);

                var cellsPanel = e.Cell.ParentOfType<GridViewCellsPanel>();
                PropertyInfo minRowHeightProp = cellsPanel.GetType().GetProperty("MinRowHeight", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic);
                object minRowHeightPair = minRowHeightProp.GetValue(cellsPanel);
                PropertyInfo heightProp = minRowHeightPair.GetType().GetProperty("Second");
                heightProp.SetValue(minRowHeightPair, height);
            }
        }));
    }
}

The column group headers are not displayed when the DisplayIndex property of the GridViewColumn objects is set before the control is loaded.

To work this around, you can set the DisplayIndex of the columns after the RadGridView is loaded.

Empty cells appear when the RadGridView contains many cells in the viewport and the view gets resized.

To work this around you can extract and modify the ControlTemplate of GridViewCell, in order to set the MinHeight property of the "PART_ContentPresenter" element to a number close to the RowHeight of the RadGridView control.

Setting ShowDistinctFilters for a RadGridViewColumn hides the distinct values from the filter popup as expected.

But the grid still queries the ItemsSource for distinct values of said column when showing thje popup - it calls something like

MyQueryable.Select(item => item.SomeColumn).Distinct().OrderBy(item => item).Take(1000))