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Windows Phone 7 - Binding Data to ListBox through Code

  • Artigo

In Windows Phone 7 we need to display data programmatically. Below one demonstrates the simply way of binding data through code.

Suppose you have Emp class as below.

 public class Emp
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

Let’s create List<Emp>

 List<Emp> myData = new List<Emp>()
{
    new Emp(){Id = 1, Name = "Wriju"},
    new Emp(){Id = 2, Name = "Writam"},
    new Emp(){Id = 3, Name = "Saswati"},
    new Emp(){Id = 4, Name = "Wrishika"},
    new Emp(){Id = 5, Name = "Baba"},
    new Emp(){Id = 6, Name = "Ma"}
};

After that format the ListBox to display it properly.

 <Grid>
    <ListBox Name="listBoxEmployee">
        <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
            <DataTemplate>
                <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Id}"></TextBlock>
                    <TextBlock Text=" - "></TextBlock>
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Name}"></TextBlock>
                </StackPanel>
            </DataTemplate>               
        </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
    </ListBox>
</Grid>

Now, you need to simply code to bind the data

 lstData.ItemsSource = myData;

This is a very simple example but useful in many scenario and applied to most of the data-bound application.

Namoskar!!!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 30, 2011
    The item "lstData" appears only when you assign the ItemsSource to it. I think you might have to actually type this out in Visual Studio for yourself to get it to work. Also, how about dynamic updating once the values change. What do we do to update the listBoxEmployee?

  • Anonymous
    November 01, 2011
    great! i'm looking for this! easy, clean and...it works! thanks!

  • Anonymous
    September 29, 2012
    Thank you so much!

  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2012
    Daniel, Daniel, I'm also trying to search solution for dynamic uploading - I try to use INotifyPropertyChanged. Maybe that will help you.

  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2013
    ok. this may be simple for understanding but all fine when page load. try to refresh the list with data binding later point without page load and you have music. :)

  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2013
    Thanks for this, but its not working.

  • Anonymous
    August 05, 2013
    Hi, I was hoping you could help me, What if i want to bind to more than 1000 items, how will i handle that?

  • Anonymous
    August 06, 2013
    For large list you should consider msdn.microsoft.com/.../microsoft.phone.controls.longlistselector(v=vs.105).aspx

  • Anonymous
    September 21, 2013
    Great article.

  • Anonymous
    July 29, 2014
    Thanks nice example