I am very new to WPF and testing some things that I would like to include in an application that I will be working on. I have a 2 row ListView (bound to a textbox) with the names Scott Guthrie and Jon Skeet in it. I am trying to select "Scott Guthrie" in the ListView and have it populate the TextBox. I want to be able to edit the text and tab off and have the ListView updated.
Edit:I removed the code since that really didn't add anything to the question.
Wow, that's really complicated what you've got there.
This can be accomplished in a very simple way. You need a model to represent the programmer, a view model to hold a list of programmers, and simple binding to take care of the rest.
The model:
public sealed class Programmer
{
public string Name { get; set; }
}
Its very simple. An object representing a programmer with a name. We must encapsulate the name within an object because strings are immutable in .NET. If you tried binding against a single string in a list of strings, changes wouldn't propagate.
The collection of programmers is kept in a ViewModel. In this case, I call it ViewModel, because I have no imagination. This view model contains everything that the view binds against. In this case, its the list of programmers.
public sealed class ViewModel
{
public ObservableCollection<Programmer> Programmers { get; private set; }
public ViewModel()
{
Programmers = new ObservableCollection<Programmer>();
}
}
The ViewModel is set as the DataContext of our view. The DataContext flows down the visual tree, and we can bind against it at any point.
public MainWindow()
{
var vm = new ViewModel();
vm.Programmers.Add(new Programmer { Name = "Jon Skeet" });
vm.Programmers.Add(new Programmer { Name = "Scott Guthrie" });
DataContext = vm;
InitializeComponent();
}
You can set the DataContext in any way you want; I'm doing it here for simplicity's sake.
In the UI, I simply bind the ListView against the list of Programmers in the ViewModel (the DataContext, unless otherwise stated, is the root of the binding path). I then bind the TextBox against the SelectedItem of the ListBox. You select a Programmer from the list, which then becomes the SelectedItem, which I can then change the Name of.
<Window
x:Class="Programmers.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:t="clr-namespace:Programmers"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ListBox
x:Name="list"
ItemsSource="{Binding Programmers}"
DisplayMemberPath="Name" />
<TextBox
Grid.Column="1"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
Text="{Binding SelectedItem.Name, ElementName=list}" />
</Grid>
</Window>
Simple, once you get the hang of it.
This works (except that you need to validate the textbox since you can enter any text.. a dropdown might be a better choice).
View:
<TabItem x:Name="RightTabPage" Header="RightModel" DataContext="{Binding Right}">
<StackPanel>
<TextBox Text="{Binding SelectedGuru}"/>
<ListView SelectedItem="{Binding SelectedGuru}" ItemsSource="{Binding Gurus}"/>
</StackPanel>
</TabItem>
ViewModel:
public class RightViewModel
{
public RightViewModel()
{
Gurus = new[] {"Scott Guthrie", "Jon Skeet"};
SelectedGuru = Gurus.First();
}
public string SelectedGuru { get; set; }
public IEnumerable<string> Gurus{ get; set; }
}