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Nick
Nick

Reputation: 1025

Xamarin bind to another element from within a listview itemtemplate

I have a list view, with an itemtemplate, datatemplate, viewcell etc. In there I have a bunch of controls binding to the item properties. That all works great, but I do not seem to be able to reference another element on the same page within it, for example,

{Binding Path=MyProperty, Source={Reference AnotherElement}}

Even though I have another element on the same page called 'AnotherElement' that exposes 'MyProperty' and this exact binding works in other areas on the same page, I cannot get any bindings to refer to another element from within the listview itemtemplate.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1092

Answers (1)

FreakyAli
FreakyAli

Reputation: 16459

Since you are in a listview item template the Xamarin Forms ListView needs a binding context to map the binding with by that i mean it needs the reference of the Source of its binding context you can provide that using the ListViews x:Name property

Give your list view a name: 

  <ListView x:Name="myList"...>

Then use its binding context as Source

Path=BindingContext.MyProperty, Source={x:Reference myList}}"/>

Upvotes: 1

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