Question

I was trying to get it working for few days.
What is wrong in this code?

This is my window XAML:

<Window
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Rapideo_Client"
        x:Class="Rapideo_Client.MainWindow"     
        Title="NVM" SnapsToDevicePixels="True" Height="400" Width="625">
    <Window.Resources>
        <DataTemplate x:Key="linksTemplate" DataType="DownloadLink">
            <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
                <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Name}" FontWeight="Bold"></TextBlock>
                <Label Content="{Binding Path=SizeInMB}"/>
                <Label Content="{Binding Path=Url}"/>
            </StackPanel>
        </DataTemplate>
    </Window.Resources> 
        <ListView   ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled"
                    ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible"
                    x:Name="MainListBox"
                    ItemTemplate="{DynamicResource linksTemplate}">                
        </ListView>
</Window>

This is my class:

class Rapideo
    {
        (...)
        public List<DownloadLink> Links { get; private set; }
        (...)
    }

This is my item:

class DownloadLink
{
    public string Name { get; private set; }
    public string Url { get; private set; }
    public DateTime ExpiryDate { get; private set; }
    public float SizeInMB { get; private set; }
    public int Path { get; private set; }
    public string Value { get; private set; }
    public LinkState State { get; set; }
    public enum LinkState
    {
        Ready, Downloading, Prepering, Downloaded
    }

    public DownloadLink(string name, string url, DateTime expiryDate, float sizeInMB, int path, string value, LinkState state)
    {
        Name = name;
        Url = url;
        ExpiryDate = expiryDate;
        SizeInMB = sizeInMB;
        Path = path;
        Value = value;
        State = state;
    }
}

This is my binding:

RapideoAccount = new Rapideo();
MainListBox.ItemsSource = RapideoAccount.Links;

Later in the code I populate that list in RapideoAccount.Links.
But nothing is showing in ListView.
List View is always empty.

Where is mistake in that code?

Answer 1

Yes, it should be an ObservableCollection<DownloadLink> if you’re planning on adding to it AFTER you have setup the ItemsSource. If the list is preloaded and you won’t be changing it, List<T> would have worked.

Now I do think that

MainListBox.ItemsSource = RapideoAccount.Links;

is still technically a binding. But what you are probably thinking of is binding via the DataContext rather than directly (al la MVVM style). So that’d be:

RapideoAccount = new Rapideo();
this.DataContext = RapideoAccount;

Then in your window, you’d bind your ItemSource like this:

<Window
    ...
    <ListView  ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled"
               ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible"
               x:Name="MainListBox"
               ItemsSource="{Binding Links}" 
               ItemTemplate="{DynamicResource linksTemplate}">                
    </ListView>
</Window>