Question

Tried to do some searching on this, but couldn’t find exactly what I needed. I’d like to have a combobox with hardcoded items, but contain a default string. For example:

–Select Item–

Item1

Item2

Item3

I do not want the –Select Item– to appear within the list, only on the combobox itself.
Also I do not want this value to be editable.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could override the default template and to include a TextBlock there which only is visible if the SelectedItem is null (use a style with datatrigger for that). To get a default tenmplate you can modify check MSDN (Default WPF Themes link).