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✅ Databinding using CommunityTooklit.MVVM

When I am trying to bind to a property on a custom class I am running into some trouble because im not sure how to do it. I am able to get the list to show items using ItemsSource="{Binding Players}" however the items themselves are not showing their properts (Ex: PlayerName) All I see is a blank row.

I have changed line 49 to say PlayerName to try to bind to the property of the actual item in the list but that did not work. Any tutorials or tips?

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EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 12:10 PM

It is giving me "Property "PlayerName" not found on MainViewModel". I am not sure how to tell it to look for the property of the item in the observable collection.

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 12:34 PM

That should work I believe?

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 12:37 PM

Should you have the PName / PClass properties on the view model as that's dealing with a collection not an individual PlayerCharacter record?

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 12:40 PM

I have those properties there so I can databind them to the entry boxes to create the playercharacter record

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 12:40 PM

Is that the wrong way to do that?

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 12:40 PM

ah sorry, no that's probably fine

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 12:41 PM

I couldn't see anything wrong with your viewmodel as to why it shouldn't be finding the properties though, worked for me when I copied your code and set out the ListView as above

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 12:42 PM

Wait the code you pasted worked on my original one?

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 12:43 PM

after I updated the xaml snippet yeah

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 12:45 PM

Tried using your code i guess i should specify im using maui because Listview.view isnt working

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 12:45 PM

Do you want them in separate columns or just the player represented as a single string is fine?

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 12:45 PM

Seperate columns might be better in case i add more properties

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 12:46 PM

Either way im really just putting them in a list view to make sure they are creating properly and to make sure i know how to databind properly

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 12:46 PM

ok, I was going to say you could just have:

then override the ToString() method in your PlayerCharacter class

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 12:47 PM

to return whatever you want

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 12:47 PM

Yeah thats one way true. Is there a better way or is that the way youre supposed to do it?

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 12:49 PM

I mean it's A way, all depends on what you want really, and if you're going to be adding properties and wanting to see the data then probably becomes a pain to keep updating what ToString outputs - could you bind it to a DataGrid or something instead?

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 12:50 PM

Though I don't know if MAUI has a DataGrid actually

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 12:57 PM

I dont think it does but im not positive. But it doesnt matter WHAT i bind it to. I can even bind it to a label if needed I just would like to be able to see how to bind to a property of an object in a list (observablecollection).

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 1:01 PM

looking at the docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/user-interface/controls/listview

it should work:

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 1:03 PM

Then yeah what in the world?

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 1:04 PM

Okay let me see if i did something wrong somewhere else then because my example is the same as the docs

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 1:12 PM

Im really not sure, maybe you can find something if you had all the code?
https://github.com/EricAwesomeness/Eldoria

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EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 1:47 PM

Good News is I fixed it but bad news is I have no idea why?

I removed x:DataType="viewmodel:MainViewModel"
From the xaml and intellisense is giving me errors for all of my bindings now. BUT when i run it it works.

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 1:48 PM

No datacontext found for binding "property" is the error i am getting on the xaml now

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 1:49 PM

hmm have you tried in your xaml:

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 1:50 PM

Instead of

or with it?

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 1:51 PM

instead of, yeah

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 1:52 PM

That worked flawlessly

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 1:52 PM

Can you explain a bit?

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 1:52 PM

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 1:53 PM

I'd love to take credit but just found it here

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/xaml/fundamentals/mvvm

SinFluxx•10/18/23, 1:53 PM

I've done it similarly using Avalonia

EricAwesomenessOP•10/18/23, 1:54 PM

Hmm okay well its fixed for now. I hope to learn more about that if i have to later. Thanks for help for the 2nd time today!