Is it possible to group items in a ItemsControl or Listbox in Silverlight? These controls are bound to a DomainDataSource.
Or are there any 3rd party controls that do this?
UPDATE:
This is the sort of UI I am trying to create.
You can do this by using nested ItemsControls bound to a PagedCollectionView.
Say I have a datasource - MyItems - with fields: Category, Section and Option. I can create a PagedCollectionView from an IEnumerable(of MyItems) and tell it which fields to group by.
Dim original As IEnumerable(Of MyItems) = GetMyItems()
Dim pcv = New PagedCollectionView(original)
pcv.GroupDescriptions.Add(New PropertyGroupDescription("Category"))
pcv.GroupDescriptions.Add(New PropertyGroupDescription("Section"))
Then I bind my first ItemsControl to the PagedCollectionView
hisMyItems.ItemsSource = pcv.Groups
The PCV creates a nested hierachy like:
-Name
-Items
where Name is the value in the grouped field and Items contains the rows/objects in that grouping. I guess you could also create the PCV in xaml if you prefer.
The xaml would look something like:
<controls:HeaderedItemsControl x:Name="hisMyItems" Header="{Binding Name}" ItemsSource="{Binding Items}" >
<controls:HeaderedItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<controls:HeaderedItemsControl Header="{Binding Name}" ItemsSource="{Binding Items}" ItemsPanel="{StaticResource ItemsPanelTemplate1}" >
<controls:HeaderedItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Button Content="{Binding Option}" />
</DataTemplate>
</controls:HeaderedItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</controls:HeaderedItemsControl>
</DataTemplate>
</controls:HeaderedItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</controls:HeaderedItemsControl>
I hope that makes sense. I have tried to simplify things from my actual app but I could have made some mistakes in copying it over. Obviously you could use normal ItemsControls or other controls too and customize with templates etc.
The DataGrid control supports grouping.
Tim Heuer has a good blog on grouping with a datagrid.
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Perhaps the control you are really looking for is the Accordian Control from the Toolkit.
See sample of Accordian behaviour here.
Note that the actual appearance is as style-able as any other control. The basic function is to group categories of items that would otherwise be a straight-forward List.
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I have created search option using combobox, for example
In combobox1 items are m1,m2,m3,m4,m5 based on that, if m1 item selected then
another combobox2 displays with items a,b,c,d and if a item is selected another
combobox3 dispalys, based on last combobox it searches on the datagrid.
I think it is long process, use of many combobox makes it lenghty. Is any
other way is their to implement this. plz help
<ComboBox Grid.Column="1"
Grid.Row="1"
x:Name="cmbType"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
IsEnabled="{Binding IsOther}"
ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource enumTypeOfType}}"
SelectedItem="{Binding SearchType,Mode=TwoWay}"
SelectedIndex="{Binding CmdResIndex,Mode=TwoWay}"
IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True"
SelectionChanged="DataSource1"
Margin="0,0,1,0">
</ComboBox>
So if i get this right, you have a collection a, which goes to collection b,etc, and the second collection will change based on the selected item of the first? You have to remember, that since the data will change for each selection, hard coding the value is out of the question.
Knowing this, WPF provides you with a great mechanism for this. Using a stackpanel, with a list view will actually work.
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{binding collections}" ItemTemplate="{binding TemplateForListViewItems}" ItemPanelTemplate="{binding itemPanelTemplate}"></ItemsControl>
Now, with the items control, one can simply set an ItemTemplate/DataTemplate, to set the styling of each control. Linking to the onclick event, or using interactions, you can simply do collections.Add to add your new list view with generated data for the selection, and done.
I have a DataGrid bound to a CollectionViewSource in XAML.
<Window.Resources>
<local:MainWindowViewModel x:Key="ViewModel"/>
<CollectionViewSource x:Key="cvsEntries"
Source="{Binding LogEntriesStore,
Source={StaticResource ViewModel}}"/>
</Window.Resources>
LogEntriesStore is an ObservableCollection (LogEntry is a DTO that's not important in this discussion)
The DataGrid is declared as:
<DataGrid AutoGenerateColumns="False"
Margin="0"
Name="dataGrid1"
ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource cvsEntries}}"
IsReadOnly="True">
Now I have context menus on various cells in this DataGrid, to kick off a request for filtering. Right click on a cell, and pick filter to filter all the rows, and show only this particular value.
The MVVM gets the request to filter, but the now the tricky bit. How do I set the filter on the CollectionViewSource?
(as an aside -- this would have been a walk in the park with a Silverlight PagedCollectionView but that doesn't seem to be available in WPF, is that right?)
Very simple. You just need to move the collection view inside the view model:
In MainWindowViewModel define a property of type ICollectionView:
public ICollectionView LogEntriesStoreView { get; private set; }
Right after you have initialized the LogEntriesStore property, you need to initialize the LogEntriesStoreView property with the following code:
LogEntriesStoreView = CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(LogEntriesStore);
Then you need to remove the CollectionViewSource from XAML and modify the ItemsSource binding to point to the newly created collection view property:
<DataGrid AutoGenerateColumns="False"
Margin="0"
Name="dataGrid1"
ItemsSource="{Binding LogEntriesStoreView, Source={StaticResource ViewModel}}"
IsReadOnly="True">
That's it. Now you have the access to the collection view inside your view model, where you can modify the filter.
There are several solutions to your problem, but in my opinion, the best solutions are the ones which uses only styles with the standard WPF DataGrid control without inventing a new inherited DataGird type or depending on another third-party control. The followings are the best solutions I found:
Option 1: which I personally use: Automatic WPF Toolkit DataGrid Filtering
Option 2: Auto-filter for Microsoft WPF DataGrid
Any help on this really appreciated. In summary I'm trying to databind to properties of a custom class instantiated in xaml that then forms the content of a templated listboxitem (phew!).
I have a simple c# class called MenuItem. It has two properties:
- Heading
- Icon
Concentrating on just one of those menu items (i.e. to provide a simple example of where I am stuck) If I do this (with the values hard coded) it works fine:
<ListBox>
<ListBoxItem ContentTemplate="{StaticResource MenuItemTemplate}">
<myclasses:MenuItem Heading="News" IconImage="News.png"/>
</ListBoxItem>
</Listbox>
Where MenuItemTemplate is an appropriate DataTemplate in the resources section binding each property) containing lines such as:
<TextBlock x:Name="tbHeading" Text="{Binding Heading}">
Wheareas when I try to use binding to set the Heading property it falls over (AG_E_PARSER_BAD_PROPERTY_VALUE error)- e.g.:
<ListBox>
<ListBoxItem ContentTemplate="{StaticResource MenuItemTemplate}">
<myclasses:MenuItem Heading="{Binding NewsHeading, Mode=OneWay}" Icon="News.png"/>
</ListBoxItem>
<Listbox>
I've wondered if it is because I'm doing some kind of double binding (i.e. the template is binding to a value on the MenuItem class that needs to be bound) and that's not possible? I've tried having the properties declared as dependency properties but no difference (although I only learned about those today so I may be missing something).
I know I could set the menuitem objects up in the view model, and bind from there, but I would like to understand why the above doesn't work (as for my purposes there are advantages in constructing the menu items in the xaml).
Thank you!!!!
Ian
thanks for sticking with this. I agree the listbox might not be needed - but even if I reduce it to just one item in a contentcontrol:
<ContentControl ContentTemplate="{StaticResource MenuItemTemplate}">
<myclasses:MenuItem Heading="{Binding NewsHeading, Mode=OneWay}" IconImage="News.png"/>
</ContentControl>
I still have the same problem - which is that I can get databinding to work within the content of a contentcontrol (prior to it being presented by the datatemplate referred to in ContentTemplate) using purely xaml.
I.e. the above bit of xaml doesn't work - it throws an error on the bit that binds the NewsHeading:
Heading="{Binding NewsHeading, Mode=OneWay}
So I am trying to understand whether what I'm doing is impossible, or whether it is but I'm doing it wrong.
Thanks.
Assuming that you have multiple MenuItem classes (because you're putting them in a listbox and ti wouldn't make sense to do that if you just had one). You need to bind the collection to the ItemsSource property of the ListBox.
Somehting like this:
<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding MyMenuItems}">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Heading}"/>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
Note that the above assumes you've set the DataContext on the page to an object with a property called MyMenuItems which is a collection of your MenuItem objects.
To see a full example of this, look at the default code created when you create a new "Windows Phone Databound Application".
Edit:
Based on your comments, it seems that a ListBox is not the most appropriate solution to your needs. A ListBox is designed/intended to take a collection of items and display them in a list.
If you have a number of different objects which you know about at design time and simply wish to have them one on top of another (giving the appearance of a list) you could simply put them inside a ScrollViewer and/or a StackPanel (or other appropriate container). Plus, you would still be able to databind if you did it this way.
I have a datagrid. A column of the datagrid is a simple <DataGridTemplateColumn> with its CellTemplate containing a <DataTemplate> which contains a <ComboBox> such as
<my:DataGrid Name="dataGridMain" AutoGenerateColumns="False">
<my:DataGrid.Columns>
<my:DataGridTemplateColumn Header="Food" >
<my:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate >
<DataTemplate>
<ComboBox Name="comboDataTemplate"
Text="{Binding Path=Food,
Mode=TwoWay,
UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource resFoodLookups}}"
DisplayMemberPath="FoodName"
SelectedValuePath="FoodID" IsEditable="True" />
</DataTemplate>
</my:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
</my:DataGridTemplateColumn>
</my:DataGrid.Columns>
</my:DataGrid>
All is working fine. Each combobox is bound to a static list due to the ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource resFoodLookups}}" statement.
But my requirement is that this list will change from row-to-row.
That is: each time a user types a new entry in the combobox list on one row, I want to have it available in the selection on the next row.
Basically, I want to create a new list for the user each time the user inserts a new word in the combobox on any of the rows. (The combobox is editable).
Now, I can wire up the "ItemsSource=..." at run-time, but I'm only able to do this once thus the <DataTemplate> propagates the 'same' list to 'all' the comboboxes on 'all' the rows.
My thoughts are that I need to change the ItemsSource=... property on an object-by-object basis on each combobox that is created in memory after the DataTemplate has created them - but I have no idea how to do this.
What you need to do is perform 2 way data binding to your the ItemsSource, this way when the ItemSource is updated in one of the combo boxes it will auto update your original collection and therefore your other combo boxes as well.
What I normally do is use the MVVM pattern. It is worth some research if you are not already using a particular pattern on your application.
Using it to solve your problem i would do the following:
Create a ViewModel (Lets call it MyViewModel) which has a collection of values called 'MyComboBoxItems' (It is important that you use ObservableCollection for the databinding to work)
When I create the Window/Control that contains your table, I also create an instance of MyViewModel and set its the Window.DataContext=myViewModelInstance
For your combobox binding use ItemsSource="{Binding Path=MyComboBoxItems, Mode=TwoWay}
If I have a DataSet as a result of a SQL query, can I bind it directly to a TreeView and show the hierarchy of my data? I know I'd have to use several HierarchicalDataTemplates, but I don't know how to tell each one what data to display.
If I have a 4-level hierarchy, like so:
<HierarchicalDataTemplate x:Key="FirstLevelTemplate" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource SecondLevelTemplate}"/>
<HierarchicalDataTemplate x:Key="SecondLevelTemplate" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource ThirdLevelTemplate}"/>
<HierarchicalDataTemplate x:Key="ThirdLevelTemplate" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource FourthLevelTemplate}"/>
<DataTemplate x:Key="FourthLevelTemplate"/>
What property(ies) need to be set to display my data directly from a DataSet?
edit: Ideally, I'd like to do this using a single self-referencing DataTable.
I do not think you can do that.
The Treeview control, and the HierarchicalDataTemplate expect a hierarchy of objects. The DataSet is inherently flat.
You will have to somehow convert that dataset to a hierarchy of objects, each with its own "Children" collection. The ItemsSource of the treeview will be bound to the "top level collection" (the rows without a parent reference).
Each HierarchicalDataTemplate will have its ItemsSource property bound to the corresponding Children property.
There might be a solution using converters, but if it exists it would probably end up being more complicated than straight up reshaping the data before binding.
This site has some very good examples of using treeview.
BeaStollnitz
First, you would set the ItemsSource of the TreeView to the DataSet.
Next you would set the ItemTemplate of the TreeView to the FirstLevelTemplate.
ItemTemplate="{StaticResource FirstLevelTemplate}"
The first template must reference the items that will use the second level template. Add an items source to this hierarchical template like so:
<HierarchicalDataTemplate x:Key="FirstLevelTemplate" ItemsSource="{Binding ChildItems}" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource SecondLevelTemplate}"/>
Change "ChildItems" to refer to the property within your DataSet that contains the child items. Repeat this for each HierarchicalDataTemplate.
Finally, you need to add controls to your DataTemplates in order to display the data. Here's a simple example:
<DataTemplate x:Key="FourthLevelTemplate"/>
<Border BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="Gray" CornerRadius="3">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding DataProperty}"
HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
</Border>
</DataTemplate>
In this case, you would replace "DataProperty" with the property name of your data field. Note that you could add other controls (like TextBox, ComboBox, etc) to display additional data.