Question

I have a WCF service that returns a List<KeyValuePair<long, string>> – I need to bind this to a DisplayMemberPath and the SelectedValuePath, anyone know how I might bind to the key and the value? goink I guess I have never run into this before…

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi if anyone is wondering this was a two step process…

1) I converted the list to an observable collection

public ObservableCollection<KeyValuePair<long, string>> Companies
{
  get;
  private set;
}

1.a) in the ctor I populated it like this…

 using (var client = new CompanyBusinessClient())
  {
    Companies = new ObservableCollection<KeyValuePair<long, string>>(client.GetCompanyList(new List<long>() { 2 }));
  }

2) in the XAML I created a listbox

  <ListBox Height="24" Width="200" x:Name="ItemsListBox" Grid.Row="0"
        ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Companies}"
        DisplayMemberPath="Value"
        SelectedValuePath="Key"
        SelectedItem="{Binding Path=Company}">
    </ListBox>

That actually worked, the idea was to create a dropdown but then my boss talked to some people and they decided they didn’t need that ability on that view shrug whatever, If anyone ever finds themselves in a similar position maybe this will help.