Question

I have a ListBox in WPF application as :

<ListBox HorizontalAlignment='Left' Margin='16,37,0,16' Name='lbEmpList' Width='194' SelectionChanged='lbEmpList_SelectionChanged' FontSize='12' SelectionMode='Single'>  </ListBox> 

I have three buttons: Add, Remove and Update that will add, remove and update items to the list box. I am adding Items to the ListBox my custom class object names objEmployee. This custom class contains few properties: Id, Name, Address.
But, when I add the object to ListBox, then it will display items as

<Namespace Name>.<Custom Object name> 

How can I bind any of the object property to this ListBox at Design or run time to acheive my functionality?

Answer 1

Couple of options:

The first, easiest option is to set the ListBox’s DisplayMemberPath property to a property of your custom object. So if your Employee class has a LastName property you could do this:

<ListBox DisplayMemberPath='LastName' ... /> 

If you want more control over the data that’s displayed for each item (including custom layout etc) then you’ll want to define a DataTemplate for each item in your ListBox. The easiest way to do this is by simply setting the ListBox’s ItemTemplate property:

<ListBox ...>     <ListBox.ItemTemplate>         <DataTemplate>             <StackPanel>                 <TextBlock Text='{Binding FirstName}' />                 <TextBlock Text='{Binding LastName}' />             </StackPanel>         </DataTemplate>     </ListBox.ItemTemplate> </ListBox> 

Have a read through the links I’ve provided and check out some of the example code on MSDN.