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Noobie3001
Noobie3001

Reputation: 1251

WPF Listview binding - Get bound item in code behind

I'm trying to access the UserControl's bound object (generated from listView itemsource) from codebehind.

I have the following code:

<ListView x:Name="lst1">
    <ListView.ItemTemplate>
       <Controls:MyUserControl />  
    </ListView.ItemTemplate>
<ListView>

public void Load()
{
    lst1.ItemsSource = List<Customer> from database ......
}

In each user control that is gererated, I want to access the Customer object that the user control is getting it's values from, ie:

public MyUserControl()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    Customer cust = (Customer)this.DataContext;
    // cust is null????
}

This code successfully displays properties from the Customer object, I just can't seem to find it in the code behind.

Please help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1437

Answers (1)

15ee8f99-57ff-4f92-890c-b56153
15ee8f99-57ff-4f92-890c-b56153

Reputation: 37059

Does the compiler really let you assign object to Customer without a cast?

Anyway, DataContext won't be initialized yet in the constructor.

You could handle the DataContextChanged event, which will be raised whenever DataContext changes -- in this case, that'll probably just be when it's assigned in the course of instantiating the DataTemplate that creates MyUserControl. And that's just what you want.

XAML

<UserControl
    ...
    DataContextChanged="MyUserControl_DataContextChanged"
    ...

C#

private Customer _customer;
void MyUserControl_DataContextChanged(object sender, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
    _customer = (Customer)DataContext;
}

Or you could just cast DataContext to Customer whenever you need to use it. Check for null, of course. You didn't say what you're doing with Customer so it's hard to be sure when you would need to do something with it.

Upvotes: 2

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