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  Trotter

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  Newbie question regarding ItemsControls

  Jun 21, 2009 09:41 PM | LINK

   Hello all!

   Im still new at Silverlight so please bear with me but I am having trouble with my ItemsControl. My XAML looks like this;

      <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
          <ItemsControl Name="listBox">
              <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
                  <DataTemplate>
                      <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}"/>
                  </DataTemplate>
              </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
          </ItemsControl>
      </Grid>

   Here's the code;
  

      public partial class Page : UserControl
      {
  
          private Person[] _people = new Person[] { 
              new Person { Name = "PersonA" }, new Person { Name = "PersonB" } };
  
          public Page()
          {
              InitializeComponent();
              listBox.ItemsSource = _people;
          }
  
      }
  
      public class Person
      {
          public string Name
          { get; set; }
      }

   Everything appears as it should.

  What I want to do is get the textboxes that it generates so that I can find their position on the screen. FindName always seem to return null and I cant just drill down through the content because ItemsControl doesnt inherit from content control. I'm a little stuck as to the best way to do this so any help would be greatly appreciated.
  

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  Re: Newbie question regarding ItemsControls

  Jun 21, 2009 10:03 PM | LINK

   

  You could override the PrepareContainerForItemOverride() method in an ItemsControl-derived class.

  That method will be passed an item and the container created for the item.

  See here for more details...

   

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  Re: Re: Newbie question regarding ItemsControls

  Jun 21, 2009 11:40 PM | LINK

  They make it look so easy! Thanks for the help thats me sorted for now.