Question

Please excuse my noobiness.

I’ve come over from Windows Forms so I can use the awesome Fluent Ribbon Control Suite. And I am redoing an app for someone.

Basically, I need to be able to programmatically create new Columns and populate them with Items from a DB Query at runtime. And depending on which button was clicked, I will also need to Clear all items in the ListView and repopulate it with different Column names along with new items from another DB Query.

But I’m having a hard time trying to figure this out. I just don’t get it. The first thing I did, before looking online, was this (thinking and hoping it would be very similar to how Windows Forms does it):

GridViewColumn gvc = new GridViewColumn();
            gvc.Header = "hi baeltazor!";
            listView1.Items.Add(gvc);

But, I was wrong. What I tried to do there was create a column called “hi baeltazor!” and add it to the ListView. How can we populate a ListView with items and columns at runtime?

The only solutions I’ve seen have alot of XAML involved, and I don’t get how that works, because I can’t change XAML at runtime?

Answer 1

<ListView x:Name="ListViewControl">
    <ListView.View>
        <GridView x:Name="GridViewControl"/>
    </ListView.View>
</ListView>

and in code behind,

ListViewControl.ItemsSource = ItemsSourceObject;   //your query result 
GridViewColumn column = new GridViewColumn();
column.Header = "Name";
column.DisplayMemberBinding = new Binding("Name");
GridViewControl.Columns.Add(column);