#964 – ListBox Data Binding Basics, Part I

You can use data binding to load and manage the items displayed in a ListBox control.

You bind the ItemsSource property of the ListBox to a collection that implements the IEnumerable interface.  The collection bound to can contain any type of object.

If the ListBox is displaying simple strings, you can set the DisplayMemberPath property to the string-typed property of a bound object  that should be used to get the display string for each item.

You can also use binding to bind the SelectedItem property of the ListBox to a property whose type matches the types in the collection that ItemsSource binds to.  When the user selects an item in the ListBox, the corresponding property is updated to refer to the correct item.  And if the property bound to is changed from code-behind, the selected item in the ListBox changes.

Next time: Code sample for all of this.