Question

I can’t get my xaml to bind with my viewmodel. I have in my viewModel a ObservableCollection of a INotifyPropertyChanged class that holds data about a recepie. Here is my Recepie class :

namespace WP7SQLiteClient.Model
{
    public class MainViewModelItem : INotifyPropertyChanged
    {
        string _title, _subTitle, _imageUriPath;

        string title
        {

            get
            {
                return _title;
            }
            set
            {
                _title = value;
                NotifyPropertyChanged("title");
            }
        }
        string subTitle
        {
            get
            {
                return _subTitle;
            }
            set
            {
                _subTitle = value;
                NotifyPropertyChanged("subTitle");
            }
        }
        string imageUriPath
        {
            get
            {
                return _imageUriPath;
            }
            set
            {
                _imageUriPath = value;
                NotifyPropertyChanged("imageUriPath");
            }
        }

        public MainViewModelItem(string title, string subtitle, string imageuripath)
        {
            this.title = title;
            this.subTitle = subtitle;
            this.imageUriPath = imageuripath;
        }

        public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

        protected void NotifyPropertyChanged(String info)
        {
            if (PropertyChanged != null)
            {
                PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(info));
            }
        }
    }
}

And my ViewModel which holds the list of recepies :

namespace WP7SQLiteClient.ViewModel
{

        public class PanoramaViewModel : INotifyPropertyChanged
        {
            public ObservableCollection<MainViewModelItem> _recepiesList;


            public ObservableCollection<MainViewModelItem> recepiesList
            {
                get
                {
                    return _recepiesList;
                }

                set
                {
                    _recepiesList = value;
                    NotifyPropertyChanged("recepiesList");
                }
            }

            public PanoramaViewModel()
            {
                this.recepiesList = new ObservableCollection<MainViewModelItem>();

            }

            public bool IsDataLoaded
            {
                get;
                private set;
            }

            public void LoadData()
            {
                this.recepiesList.Add(new MainViewModelItem("Classics", "", ""));
                this.recepiesList.Add(new MainViewModelItem("Perfect Pasta", "", ""));
                this.recepiesList.Add(new MainViewModelItem("Favorites", "", ""));
                this.recepiesList.Add(new MainViewModelItem("Snacks & Antipasti", "", ""));
                this.recepiesList.Add(new MainViewModelItem("Desserts", "", ""));
                this.recepiesList.Add(new MainViewModelItem("3 minutes recipes", "", ""));

                this.IsDataLoaded = true;
            }


            private string _sampleProperty = "Sample Runtime Property Value";
            /// <summary>
            /// Sample ViewModel property; this property is used in the view to display its value using a Binding
            /// </summary>
            /// <returns></returns>
            public string SampleProperty
            {
                get
                {
                    return _sampleProperty;
                }
                set
                {
                    if (value != _sampleProperty)
                    {
                        _sampleProperty = value;
                        NotifyPropertyChanged("SampleProperty");
                    }
                }
            }




            public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

            protected void NotifyPropertyChanged(String info)
            {
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                {
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(info));
                }
            }
        }

}

In my MainPage.xaml (it’s in the root of the project, the viewModel is in the ViewModel folder and the Model is in the Model folder) i have my listbox declared like this :

<ListBox x:Name="recepiesList"  ItemTemplate="{StaticResource ListViewModelTemplate}" > 

                </ListBox>

The template is located in the App.xaml and is correct for sure. It uses things like {Binding title}

In the MainPage.cs i try to link the view model with the page using :

public static PanoramaViewModel viewModel = null;

        public static PanoramaViewModel ViewModel
        {
            get
            {
                // Delay creation of the view model until necessary
                if (viewModel == null)
                    viewModel = new PanoramaViewModel();

                return viewModel;
            }
        } 
public MainPage()
        {

            InitializeComponent();

            ViewModel.LoadData();
            DataContext = ViewModel;

        }

But it doesn’t work, nor the debugger raises an error. How can i correctly link the viewmodel with the xaml ?

UPDATE my template looks like this :

<DataTemplate x:Key="ListViewModelTemplate"> <!-- for recent recepies-->

            <Grid Width="400" Height="80" VerticalAlignment="Center">

                <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
                    <Border CornerRadius="0" x:Name="brdTesat" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1" Width="80" Height="80">

                    <Border.Background>
                        <ImageBrush x:Name="backgroundImaageBrush" Stretch="Fill">

                            <ImageBrush.ImageSource>

                                    <BitmapImage x:Name="bmapBackground" UriSource="{Binding imageUriPath}" >
                                </BitmapImage>

                            </ImageBrush.ImageSource>
                        </ImageBrush>
                    </Border.Background>
                </Border>
                    <StackPanel>
                    <TextBlock TextAlignment="Left" Margin="7,4,4,4" Text="{Binding title}" TextWrapping="Wrap"></TextBlock>
                        <TextBlock TextAlignment="Left" Margin="7,4,4,4" Text="DA" TextWrapping="Wrap"></TextBlock>
                    </StackPanel>
                </StackPanel>

            </Grid>
        </DataTemplate>

UPDATE 2

i’ve changed my listbox code to :

<ListBox x:Name="recepiesList"  ItemsSource="{Binding recepiesList}" >             </ListBox>

With no template, i get a list of [project_name].Model.MainViewModelItem, so i think there is a problem with the template.. What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

You need to bind you ListBox to the data. So, this should work for you.

<ListBox x:Name="recepiesList" ItemsSource="{Binding recepiesList}" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource ListViewModelTemplate}"  />