WPF ListView Key Search Issue - wpf

Question

I am using MVVM to show a list data in ListView. The ListView is very simple as follow:
<ListView HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
ItemsSource="{Binding Customers}">
<ListView.View>
<GridView>
<GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding FirstName}">
<GridViewColumnHeader Width="100" Content="First Name" />
</GridViewColumn>
<GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding LastName}">
<GridViewColumnHeader Width="100" Content="Last Name" />
</GridViewColumn>
</GridView>
</ListView.View>
</ListView>
I bind a list of customer objects into ListView and the issue comes when I highlight a item in the ListView and start typing T. The ListView will highlight the next item each time you type a T character.
By spending some time to find out the issue, I track down it is because that my customer object has namespace TestMVVMProject so I think the ToString() function for customer object is always return TestMVVMProject.Customer
Can anyone give me some idea how to stop this behaviour?

Answer 1

This is because by default the ListView implements text searching ability. You can stop this behavious byusing the IsTextSearchEnabled property on the list box. Try
<ListView HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
ItemsSource="{Binding Customers}"
IsTextSearchEnabled="False">
This should disable the text search when you do not want it.

Answer 2

Edit:
After some investigation I found next solution:
<ListView
TextSearch.TextPath="FirstName"
...>
Hope this will help.
Original answer:
Just override ToString() on View Model and you will get proper behavior.
public class Customer
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public override string ToString()
{
return this.Name;
}
}