WPF: Binding to property of a class in a ObservableCollection-CodePudding

i have a class called Robot:

public class Robot
{
    public string name { get; private set; }

    public Robot(string robotName)
    {
        name = robotName;
    }
}

I made in my ModelView an ObservableCollection of this class:

public ObservableCollection<Robot> Robots { get; private set; } = new ObservableCollection<Robot>();

And I need now to bind this ObservableCollection to my ListView, but I need the property name binded to the ListView, not the class converted to a string.

<ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Robots}" />

How do I do this?

CodePudding user response：

Set the DisplayMemberPath property to the name of the item property:

<ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Robots}" DisplayMemberPath="name" />

The Robot property should be named Name - using Pascal Casing to adhere to widely accepted naming conventions:

public class Robot
{
    public string Name { get; }

    public Robot(string name)
    {
        Name = name;
    }
}

The XAML would then be

<ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Robots}" DisplayMemberPath="Name" />