In a nutshell, what I'm trying to do, is create a DataTemplate to indicate how a customer banner should look.
I've got this working in a very simple form, but only using a ListView control, to which I apply the ItemsSource to a list which contains one entry.
What I want to do is apply a Customer object directly to a control (not sure what type of control) and it picks up the DataTemplate for this type and lays out the data.
The xaml I'm using is...
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication5.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WpfApplication5"
Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
<Window.Resources>
<DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type local:Customer}" >
<Border Background="Blue" >
<TextBlock Text="{Binding CustomerName}" />
</Border>
</DataTemplate>
</Window.Resources>
<ListView x:Name="mylist" />
</Window>
With the following code-behind.
namespace WpfApplication5
{
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
Customer mp=new Customer();
mp.CustomerName="Mr. Banana";
List<Customer> temp = new List<Customer>();
temp.Add(mp);
mylist.ItemsSource = temp;
}
}
public class Customer
{
public string CustomerName { get; set; }
}
}