Is it possible to group items in a ItemsControl or Listbox in Silverlight? These controls are bound to a DomainDataSource.
Or are there any 3rd party controls that do this?
UPDATE:
This is the sort of UI I am trying to create.
A:
The DataGrid control supports grouping.
Tim Heuer has a good blog on grouping with a datagrid. link text
Stephen Price
2010-01-07 16:04:55
Yes I know, but the datagrid is not really suitable for what I want. I want to show a single control(eg Button) for each row but these need to wrap horizontally rather than vertically. So in the ItemsControl you can style the ItemsPanel to use a wrappanel but I cant see a way to do this in the datagrid.
geoff
2010-01-07 16:20:48
A:
Perhaps the control you are really looking for is the Accordian Control from the Toolkit.
See sample of Accordian behaviour here.
Note that the actual appearance is as style-able as any other control. The basic function is to group categories of items that would otherwise be a straight-forward List.
AnthonyWJones
2010-01-07 18:14:08
Thanks, I'll take a look. I'm not sure that this will support grouping from a domaindatasource though. Also I need more than 1 level of grouping.
geoff
2010-01-08 10:54:26
Hmm.. I see from you comment to Stephen your true requirement and question is kinda of revealed. Its not clear exactly how the idea of "Grouping" is compatiable with a "Wrappanel" style layout? I suggest you edit your question state categorically what actual UI you really want to acheive.
AnthonyWJones
2010-01-08 11:55:06
@AnthonyWJones- I've added a image of what I am trying to create. I was looking for a control to do this using databinding but it looks like I am just going to have to write some code to manually create the UI.
geoff
2010-01-08 14:37:17
A:
Check the solution from David Ans http://blogs.msdn.com/b/delay/archive/2010/03/17/confessions-of-a-listbox-groupie-using-ivalueconverter-to-create-a-grouped-list-of-items-simply-and-flexibly.aspx
Valentin Stoychev
2010-09-11 17:20:10
@Valentin - thanks, I'll take a look when I have a chance and see if this works for my situation.
geoff
2010-09-13 08:49:22