I have a ListBox that looks like this:
<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Fruits}">
<!--Make the items wrap-->
<ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<WrapPanel></WrapPanel>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Name, StringFormat=' {0},'}" />
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
This gives me a list like this:
Oranges, Grapes, Bananas,
But what I want is:
Oranges, Grapes, Bananas
(no trailing comma)
Any one have an idea on how to remove the trailing comma?
This can be achieved using IValueConverter to determine whether its last item in a listBox and there by updating StringFormat on your binding using data trigger in XAML
.
Create a converter to determine if value is last item in listbox -
public class IsLastItemInContainerConverter : IValueConverter
{
public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter,
CultureInfo culture)
{
DependencyObject item = (DependencyObject)value;
ItemsControl ic = ItemsControl.ItemsControlFromItemContainer(item);
return ic.ItemContainerGenerator.IndexFromContainer(item) ==
ic.Items.Count - 1;
}
public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter,
CultureInfo culture)
{
throw new NotImplementedException();
}
}
Now modify your XAML and add trigger on DataTemplate to remove comma from StringFormat on your TextBlock -
<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Fruits}">
<ListBox.Resources>
<local:IsLastItemInContainerConverter
x:Key="IsLastItemInContainerConverter"/>
</ListBox.Resources>
<ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<WrapPanel/>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock x:Name="textBlock"
Text="{Binding Name, StringFormat=' {0},'}" />
<DataTemplate.Triggers>
<DataTrigger Binding="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource
Mode=FindAncestor,
AncestorType=ListBoxItem},
Converter={StaticResource IsLastItemInContainerConverter}}"
Value="True">
<Setter Property="Text" TargetName="textBlock"
Value="{Binding Name, StringFormat=' {0}'}"/>
</DataTrigger>
</DataTemplate.Triggers>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
If you refactor your code, you can make a string that has your desired result very easily:
string.Join(", ", Fruits) // e.g. Oranges, Grapes, Bananas
E.g. you could have:
// on your binding object
public string FruitString { get { return string.Join(", ", Fruits); } }
// in your XAML
<TextBlock Text="{Binding FruitString}" />
(or, if the Fruits
property was of a class you defined, you could override its ToString()
, which would be a good place to put the Join
code)