Question

I am developing an application that has a dynamic number of PanoramaItems, now currently these are all added by binging a list of them to the Panorama by using its ‘ItemsSource’ property.

But the problem comes when I try to add things to the created PanoramaItems. Now, I can add a ListBox, and that works as expected, but I’d really like to add something I have a bit more control over (possibly some type of custom control).

Now, I’ve found a fair few places that show me how to do this by editing the MainPage.xaml, but since I don’t know how many of them I need I cant (I think) do it like that.

The problem is added to by the fact that the PanoramaItem class doesn’t have an ‘Items’ property, just a ‘Content’ one (which is what I think I need).

I think I need to define a .xaml/.cs file for the custom control and then somehow apply that to the PanoramaItem but I’m really not sure

Answer 1

I’m going to assume here that you’re using a MVVM framework here, so if not, I apologize.

Your correct in thinking that you’ll probably want to use a user control for the Pano Items. Once you’ve got that going here’s the new XAML code:

<controls:Panorama ItemsSource="{Binding PanoViewModels}">
     <controls:Panorama.ItemTemplate>
          <DataTemplate>
               <ctl:PanoItemControl />
          </DataTemplate>
     </controls:Panorama.ItemTemplate>
</controls:Panorama>

obviously this is simplified, but should get the idea across. In your control you can bind directly to objects contained within PanoViewModels.