How to bind and display a set of colors in WPF listview?

Question

Im struggling with a problem that might seem easy first: I want to display some grid with different colors. I have a listview that is binded to a list. The list containst Colors (i have tried SolidColorBrush as well). The listview can display the elements, so in the current case you can see 1 grid per item. I want to bind the background of the grid (so the datatemplate) to the color property itself. For example: lets say i have a white and black color in my list. Then i want to display a black and a white grid using listview. However, i cannot bind the background to anything, the binding always fails and I couldnt find a solution.

Here is the xaml code:

 <ListView ItemsSource="{Binding lightColors}" Height="30"  HorizontalAlignment="Left">
            <ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
                <Style TargetType="ListViewItem">
                    <Setter Property="Margin" Value="5"></Setter>
                    <Setter Property="Background" Value="{Binding **WHAT TO WRITE HERE?**}"></Setter>
                    <Setter Property="Template">
                        <Setter.Value>
                            <ControlTemplate TargetType="ListViewItem">

                                <Grid  Height="30" Width="30"></Grid>
                            </ControlTemplate>
                        </Setter.Value>
                    </Setter>
                </Style>
            </ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
            <ListView.ItemsPanel>
                <ItemsPanelTemplate>
                    <WrapPanel>

                    </WrapPanel>
                </ItemsPanelTemplate>

            </ListView.ItemsPanel>
            <ListView.ItemTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                
                </DataTemplate>
            </ListView.ItemTemplate>

And some code snippets:

 public List<Color> lightColors { get; set; }

  public void fillLightColors()
    {
        Color myColor = Color.FromRgb(100, 150, 75);
        LightColor.Add(myColor);
      
    }

Currently i cant see anything whenever i try to bind to the background. Maybe im missing something obvious, maybe i have to use something totally else. Any help would be appriciated!

Answer 1

You would use a SolidColorBrush as value of the Setter:

<Setter Property="Background"> 
    <Setter.Value> 
        <SolidColorBrush Color="{Binding}"/>
    </Setter.Value>
</Setter>

Besides that, the ControlTemplate must also use the Background property:

<ControlTemplate TargetType="ListViewItem">
    <Grid Height="30" Width="30"
          Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"/>
</ControlTemplate>

Also note that when you set the ListViewItem's Template like this, the ItemTemplate is not used at all. The ControlTemplate should have a ContentPresenter.

<ControlTemplate TargetType="ListViewItem">
    <Grid Height="30" Width="30"
          Background="{TemplateBinding Background}">
        <ContentPresenter/>
    </Grid>
</ControlTemplate>