A ListView control contains a collection of items that you can view in different ways. The current view can be set using the View property, which can be set to an instance of a GridView. A GridView is an object that can display the data in columns.
Below is a complete example of a bound ListView that uses a GridView to display its items. The ListView is bound to a collection and the GridView contains GridViewColumn instances, each of which is bound to a property of the items contained in the collection.
<StackPanel>
<Label Content="Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit"
Margin="5"
Background="LightCoral"/>
<ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Guys}">
<ListView.View>
<GridView>
<GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Name}"
Header="Guy"/>
<GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Age}"
Header="Age"/>
</GridView>
</ListView.View>
</ListView>
</StackPanel>
The code-behind for the top-level Window sets the data context and creates the collection.
public partial class MainWindow : Window, INotifyPropertyChanged
{
public ObservableCollection<Person> Guys { get; protected set; }
public MainWindow()
{
this.InitializeComponent();
this.DataContext = this;
Guys = new ObservableCollection<Person>();
Guys.Add(new Person("Julius Caesar", 40));
Guys.Add(new Person("Pompeius Magnus", 46));
Guys.Add(new Person("Marcus Crassus", 55));
RaisePropertyChanged("Guys");
}
public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged = delegate { };
private void RaisePropertyChanged(string propName)
{
PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propName));
}
}
For completeness, here is the implementation of the Person class.
public class Person : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public int Age { get; set; }
public Person(string name, int age)
{
Name = name;
Age = age;
}
public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
private void RaisePropertyChanged(string propName)
{
PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propName));
}
}
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