Wpf binding to class with unknown properties count

Question

I have class Products with unknown numbers of properties such as "Name", "Price" and so on. I retreive them only when parsing some txt file.

How should I:

1. write a Product class to emplement dynimicly adding Properies
2. Bind this collection of Products with unknonwn numbers of properties to ListView in XAML (or should I build in code behind after parsing txt file?)

Answer 1

1. You can use a Dictionary<string, object> to store the property names and associated values.

2. You need to generate the columns dynamically in code-behind, based on the keys in the dictionary. You can bind to a specific item of a dictionary using a binding path like "Properties[SomeKey]" (assuming your dictionary is called Properties).

Answer 2

Thank you Thomas for a quick answer. - I make Dictionary where object is List<string> - Im trying to Bind to GridView but no result just this Test emlementation works but of course this not that I want what I should write in:

• Grid1.DataContext
• listView1.ItemsSource
• gvc.DisplayMemberBinding

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enter code here

_importView = new Views.ImportBomView();
        _importView.Grid1.DataContext = _dynimicList;
        _importView.listView1.ItemsSource = (IEnumerable)_dynimicList.PropsDict["Value"];
        foreach (var item in _dynimicList.PropsDict.Keys)
        {
            GridViewColumn gvc = new GridViewColumn();
            gvc.DisplayMemberBinding = new Binding();
            gvc.Header = item;
            gvc.Width = 100;

            _importView.gridView1.Columns.Add(gvc);
        }

        _importView.Show();