Question

I have a combobox with about 20 items. I want to associate up to 5 attributes with each ComboBoxItem such as color, price, shipping weight, etc.

I want to store all these attributes in the xaml file and retrieve them when item is selected in C# code.

How best do I do this? Is storing everything in Tag and parse the Tag string the best way? Thanks.

 <ComboBoxItem Content="Shirt" Tag="Red;14;2"></ComboBoxItem>

Answer 1

You can store anything in the tag, if you want more type safetry create an object:

<ComboBoxItem>
    <ComboBoxItem.Tag>
        <local:Attributes Color="Red" Min="2" Max="14"/>
    <ComboBoxItem.Tag>
<ComboBoxItem>

But even better yet you should not create the items on your own but just have an items collection and bind/data template it using the ComboBox.ItemsSource and ItemTemplate, then you can store that with the item.

The ComboBox.SelectedItem will then directly be such an item with all the attributes you need.