Question

I basically started today with WPF, and I’m astounded by how difficult it is to do binding. I have an array of TextBoxes, in an ObservableCollection, and just want to bind that in my Listbox, so that they arrange themselves vertically.

I have fiddled around with this for 3 already, can you help?

I’m working in a WPF UserControl, not a window as so many tutorials seem to rely on.

Answer 1

In your C# code, you can do something like this:

myListBox.ItemsSource = myTextBoxesCollection;

Or in your XAML code:

<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding MyTextBoxesCollection}">
    <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <TextBox Text="{Binding Text}" />
        </DataTemplate>
    </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

For the XAML, MyTextBoxesCollection needs to be a public property on your data context. One way to set the DataContext could be, in your constructor:

DataContext = this;