I remember seen some code xaml where can get the first element (like an index x[0]) from a collection.
This is my CollectionViewSource from Resources.
<CollectionViewSource
x:Name="groupedItemsViewSource2"
Source="{Binding Posters}"
ItemsPath="Posters" />
If I display this in a listbox, it loaded it!
<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource groupedItemsViewSource2}}" />
But right now, I just want to get the first element through xaml. Is it possible doing this?
I faced similar issue, and what i did was to call MoveCurrentToFirst
(in ViewModel)
`SelectedIndex=0
(on ListBox in XAML), was another way but it was failing when Collection view source does not hold any data.
The easiest way I have found so far is to go via enumerator:
ICollectionView view = CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(observable);
var enumerator = view.GetEnumerator();
enumerator.MoveNext(); // sets it to the first element
var firstElement = enumerator.Current;
or you can do the same with an extension and call it directly on the observable collection:
public static class Extensions
{
public static T First<T>(this ObservableCollection<T> observableCollection)
{
ICollectionView view = CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(observableCollection);
var enumerator = view.GetEnumerator();
enumerator.MoveNext();
T firstElement = (T)enumerator.Current;
return firstElement;
}
}
and then call it from the observable collection:
var firstItem = observable.First();
There are a couple ways of accomplishing this that I know of. I'd probably go with either a separate property that returns the first of the collection, or create a Converter that will return the first element in any collection or list it is bound to.