Demonstration of ListView Contents in WPF

This article shows how to create a ListView control that uses a GridView view mode to display the contents.

This article demonstrates how to create the ListView Contents by using GridView and Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) and also by using code and also demonstrates a specific feature of the Windows Presentation Foundation.

The ListView control is a great example of WPF to bind the data from the database- the possibilities are almost endless. This article on the ListView will hopefully useful for biggners. i am starting today with a simple grid based list view, showing how to create columns and some different ways of getting data into those columns.

Now You can define the view mode of a GridView by specifying GridViewColumn objects. The following example shows how to define GridViewColumn objects that bind to the data content that is specified for the ListView control. This GridView example specifies three GridViewColumn objects that map to the Name, EMail, and CreatedDate fields of the DataSource that is set as the ItemsSource of the ListView control.

Example: Write the following code on the window1.xaml file.

Window1.xaml:

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication2.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
 xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"Title="ListView" Height="350" Width="400" Loaded="Window1_Loaded">

<Window.Resources>
    <DataTemplate x:Key="FirstCell">
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"></StackPanel>
    </DataTemplate>
</Window.Resources>
<Grid>
    <ListView ItemsSource="{Binding}" Name="lstView" Background="LightGray">
        <ListView.View>
            <GridView>
                <GridView.Columns>
                    <GridViewColumn Header="Name" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=User_LoginID}" Width="75"/>
                    <GridViewColumn Header="EMail" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=User_EMail}" Width="200"/>
                    <GridViewColumn Header="CreatedDate" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=IsCreatedDate}" Width="125"/>
                </GridView.Columns>
            </GridView>
        </ListView.View>
    </ListView>
</Grid>
</Window>

Window1.xaml.cs:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Navigation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
using System.Linq;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Xml;

namespace WpfApplication2
{
    public partial class Window1 : Window
    {
        DataSet ds = new DataSet();
        public Window1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Window1_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            Grid_Loaded();
        }

        private void Grid_Loaded()
        {
            SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection("Data source=.;initial catalog=Puru; uid=sa;password=;");

            SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("select top 20 User_LoginID,User_EMail, convert(varchar(12),IsCreatedDate,107)IsCreatedDate from tbl_User", con);

            SqlDataAdapter sqlDa = new SqlDataAdapter();
            sqlDa.SelectCommand = cmd;
            sqlDa.Fill(ds);
            lstView.DataContext = ds.Tables[0].DefaultView;
        }
    }
}

Output: