WPF listbox binding to List<string> or List<string[]> - wpf

Question

I'm very new to WPF (especially XAML) *
Hello, my app has a class which gets bunch of comma separated string. So I made a List collection to store the strings. Also, I made DataTemplate for the listbox. Here is code.
MainWindow.xaml
...
<DataTemplate x:Key="DataTemplate">
<Grid>
<StackPanel Grid.Column="1" Margin="5">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" TextBlock.FontWeight="Bold" >
<TextBlock Text="{Binding AAA}" />
</StackPanel>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding BBB}" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding CCC}" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
...
<ListBox x:Name="listbox1" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="309" Margin="10,10,0,0" Width="216" BorderThickness="1" VerticalAlignment="Top" ItemTemplate="{DynamicResource HeadlineDataTemplate}"/>
MainWindow.xaml.cs
...
MyClass myClass;
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
myClass = new MyClass();
}
...
private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
myClass.getData(Textbox1.Text); // I want to convert this to add items to listbox1.
}
MyClass.cs
...
public void getData(string target)
{
List<string> itemList = new List<string>();
...
while(result != null)
{
// This loop gives bunch of comma separated string (more than 100)
itemList.Add(result);
}
// after the loop, itemList has
// itemList[0] = {"AAA1,BBB1,CCC1"}
// itemList[1] = {"AAA2,BBB2,CCC2"}
// itemList[2] = {"AAA3,BBB3,CCC3"}
// ...
// I also can store the strings to List<string[]> using string.split().
}
So how should I do this?
I couldn't find the answer on the internet.

Answer 1

I suggest to create a model class to represent each ListBox Item. In this example I name it MyListBoxItemModel :
public class MyListBoxItemModel
{
public string AAA { get; set; }
public string BBB { get; set; }
public string CCC { get; set; }
}
Then in the getData function, create List of MyListBoxItemModel to be listbox1's ItemsSource :
public void getData(string target)
{
List<MyListBoxItemModel> itemList = new List<MyListBoxItemModel>();
...
while(result != null)
{
var splittedResult = result.Split(',');
itemList.Add(new MyListBoxItemModel{
AAA = splittedResult[0],
BBB = splittedResult[1],
CCC = splittedResult[2]
});
}
listbox1.ItemsSource = itemList;
}
Note that this example only demonstrates minimum amount of code needed to get your data displayed in the ListBox. Not involving various techniques and best practices around WPF development, such as implementing INotifyPropertyChanged interface, MVVM pattern, etc.

Answer 2

you can just bind to public properties, so if you write something like
<TextBlock Text="{Binding BBB}" />
you need an object with a public property "BBB".
so in addition to the answer from har07 you should also use a public property for your list(OberservableCollection)
public OberservableCollection<MyListBoxItemModel> ItemList {get;set;}
then your binding for your itemscontrol can look like this
<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding ItemList}" ItemTemplate="{DynamicResource HeadlineDataTemplate}"/>
all you need now is the right datacontext ;)