Question

Here is the basic xml..

<events>
 <eventday>
  <eventdate>Date of events group 1</eventdate>
   <eventsonday>
    <eventitem>
     <eventtime>Time of event 1</eventtime>
     <eventtitle>Title of event 1</eventtitle>
     <eventlocation>Location of event 1</eventlocation>
    </eventitem>
    <eventitem>
     <eventtime>Time of event 2</eventtime>
     <eventtitle>Title of event 2</eventtitle>
     <eventlocation>Location of event 2</eventlocation>
    </eventitem>
   </eventsonday>
  </eventday>
  <eventday>
  <eventdate>Date of events group 2</eventdate>
   <eventsonday>
    <eventitem>
     <eventtime>Time of event 3</eventtime>
     <eventtitle>Title of event 3</eventtitle>
     <eventlocation>Location of event 3</eventlocation>
    </eventitem>
    <eventitem>
     <eventtime>Time of event 4</eventtime>
     <eventtitle>Title of event 4</eventtitle>
     <eventlocation>Location of event 4</eventlocation>
    </eventitem>
   </eventsonday>
  </eventday>
</event>

I want to display the data in the same manner that the windows phone calendar (agenda view) is displayed.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

time of event 1
title of event 1
location of event 1

time of event 2
title of event 2
location of event 2

Friday, January 6, 2012

time of event 3
title of event 3
location of event 3

time of event 4
title of event 4
location of event 4

I don’t think I’m parsing the data correctly, or have the .xaml set up correctly. I’m thinking it needs to be set to bind the data in a stackpanel within a Listbox, but the < eventdate > group name is confusing me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

First of all, create class hierarchy that represents xml file, and parse xml data to it.

For UI, use LongListSelector control from Silverlight Toolkit. LongListCollection helps you with grouping events by date.

Usage:

 var list = new LongListCollection<Event, string>(Events, x => x.Date.ToLongDateString());