I've been fighting for a while with an autocompletebox in silverlight for windows phone (toolkit) and can't seem to figure out what's happening
I've got a simple search box, binded to a list of custom items. When the selectionchanged event fires, there's somewhere a problem and the item that i click is not the one that comes as SelectedItem. I realized that when i select, let's say the first item, nothing happens. When i select the 2nd item, the 1st one gets actually selected, and so on. It's like if the items were phased out by 1
Here's the important piece code
control :
<toolkit:AutoCompleteBox MinimumPrefixLength="0" Text="{Binding Localizedresources.Search, Source={StaticResource LocalizedStrings}}" Grid.Row="0" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" HorizontalAlignment="Left" MinWidth="270" ItemsSource="{Binding AutoCompleteEntities}" x:Name="txtSelectEntity" ValueMemberBinding="{Binding }" ItemTemplate="{Binding AutoCompleteTemplate}" IsDropDownOpen="True" MaxDropDownHeight="200" >
</toolkit:AutoCompleteBox>
template (added a blue border because i thought first that i wasn't touching the right part)
<DataTemplate x:Key="AutoCompleteTemplate">
<Border BorderBrush="Blue" BorderThickness="2">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding GermanMeaning}"></TextBlock>
</Border>
</DataTemplate>
damn this control ok, it looks like it's related to the same bug that makes this happen
I had created a transition :
<toolkit:TransitionService.NavigationInTransition>
<toolkit:NavigationInTransition>
<toolkit:NavigationInTransition.Backward>
<toolkit:TurnstileTransition
Mode="BackwardIn" />
</toolkit:NavigationInTransition.Backward>
<toolkit:NavigationInTransition.Forward>
<toolkit:TurnstileTransition
Mode="ForwardIn" />
</toolkit:NavigationInTransition.Forward>
</toolkit:NavigationInTransition>
</toolkit:TransitionService.NavigationInTransition>
<toolkit:TransitionService.NavigationOutTransition>
<toolkit:NavigationOutTransition>
<toolkit:NavigationOutTransition.Backward>
<toolkit:TurnstileTransition
Mode="BackwardOut" />
</toolkit:NavigationOutTransition.Backward>
<toolkit:NavigationOutTransition.Forward>
<toolkit:TurnstileTransition
Mode="ForwardOut" />
</toolkit:NavigationOutTransition.Forward>
</toolkit:NavigationOutTransition>
</toolkit:TransitionService.NavigationOutTransition>
to make the page switching look cooler, but it appears that those lines of code that have absolutetly nothing to do with the autocompletebox, mess it up. I hope somebody fixes these horrible random bugs at some point, not only they're nasty but they're also super difficult to catch (this made me lose like 3hs)