How to add textbox text to a split page in windows apps

Herbalist Gash

Hi, im new to developing windows store apps and im stuck in my app. Ive used a blank page where i have textboxes for a title, subtitle and for a description. Ive added a split page in my app and what i want to do is to be able to get the textbox text from the blank page and add it to the split page where it will be displayed with the details after clicking a button.

Ive checked out how to dynamically add items to a grid view but i want the items to be in the split page format where you click an item on the left side and the description comes to the right side.

Also saw in the splitpage.xaml.cs some TO DO parts where am supposed to bind data and handle selected items i.e

// TODO: Assign a bindable group to this.DefaultViewModel["Group"]
// TODO: Assign a collection of bindable items to this.DefaultViewModel["Items"]

// TODO: Invoke this.itemsViewSource.View.MoveCurrentTo() with the selected
// item as specified by the value of pageState["SelectedItem"]

// TODO: Derive a serializable navigation parameter and assign it to pageState["SelectedItem"]

My question is how do i do that or atleast how to add the textbox data to the split page? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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Herbalist Gash11y ago
There is a vertical scrolling item list made of a listview with a property: ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource itemsViewSource}}" and also the details for the selected items are in a scrollviewer whose data context property is: DataContext="{Binding SelectedItem, ElementName=itemListView}". My question is how to bind those items for them to be dispayed.
Jeffrey van Dijk11y ago
I don't know if I fully understand you but it looks like you just want to store the value that is written inside a textbox in another variable and then display that.Probably wanna go like:

string avariable = textbox1.Text;

Then you have the text stored in that variable and you can display it on a button click by making a event handler for the button and then on button click go something like, if that other page is in another class then just pass the variable to that other class, or make sure that other class inherits from the class you declare "string avariable" and then you can use it there too.

MessageBox.Show(avariable);