Removing an item from a listbox leaves the listbox with no selected item

Question

Hi

I have a WPF listbox, with some custom item inside.

When user wants to deleta on of the item, what happens is that he has to reselect manually in the list rigth after delete because the list "seems" to lose focus OR no selected item exists.

Any idea ?

Thanks Jonathan

Answer 1

We always handle this by setting the selected item in code. If it was the last item in the list, make the selected index the last item. Otherwise we make it the one after the one that was deleted.

if (SnippetsList.Items.Count > index) 
    SnippetsList.SelectedIndex = index;
else 
    SnippetsList.SelectedIndex = SnippetsList.Items.Count - 1;