DataTemplates to display a collection of Points as Ellipses in WPF

Question

In my application, the user is supposed to click over an image, and as he clicks some dots appear. Also he can remove them by right clicking, etc.

So I have a test project composed of a single Window (xaml + codebehind) with a canvas, and I am handling some of its events, as MouseMove and MouseLeftButtonDown which are going to add points to an ObservableCollection<Point> in code behind.

I already have this, what I don't know is how I'm supposed to implement data-templating and databinding so that my grid will contain an ItemsControl and every point will be displayed as a dot (Path with an EllipseGeometry, so that I can set its Center).

I took a look at some tutorials, but most of them have a lot of extra code and I am confused.

Answer 1

Here's a simple solution implemented entirely in XAML:

<!-- Bind ItemsSource to the appropriate collection -->
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding Points}">
  <ItemsControl.ItemContainerStyle>
    <Style TargetType="FrameworkElement">
      <Setter Property="Canvas.Left" Value="{Binding X}" />
      <Setter Property="Canvas.Top" Value="{Binding Y}" />
    </Style>
  </ItemsControl.ItemContainerStyle>
  <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
    <DataTemplate DataType="Point">
      <Ellipse Fill="Blue"
               Width="8"
               Height="8"
               Margin="-4,-4,4,4" />
    </DataTemplate>
  </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
  <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
    <ItemsPanelTemplate>
      <Canvas IsItemsHost="True" />
    </ItemsPanelTemplate>
  </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
</ItemsControl>