A Binding Experience :: Tip o’ The Day | Adron’s Composite Code

I was trying to get some deserialized JSON objects to bind to my WPF application interface and was struggling. I figured out what the fix was, I took the shortcut route on my objects and should have built them correctly.

My original objects where built as such:

public class ReportItem
{
    public string AccountId;
    public string Name;
    public string Id;
}

.csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, “Courier New”, courier, monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } .csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; } .csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; } .csharpcode .str { color: #006080; } .csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; } .csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; } .csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; } .csharpcode .html { color: #800000; } .csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; } .csharpcode .alt { background-color: #f4f4f4; width: 100%; margin: 0em; } .csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; }

However, they should have appeared as follows:

public class ReportItem
{
    public string AccountId { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Id { get; set; }
}

The classes that will be bound need to have legitimate properties, not merely public members.

Now when I do a binding via the XAML

        <ComboBox
            Margin="193,75,12,0"
            Name="comboProfiles"
            Height="23"
            VerticalAlignment="Top"
            IsEnabled="True"
            ItemsSource="{Binding}"
            DisplayMemberPath="Name"
            SelectionChanged="comboProfiles_SelectionChanged"
            SelectedIndex="0" />

and then bind at run time like this

var javaScriptSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
comboProfiles.DataContext = javaScriptSerializer.Deserialize<List<ProfileItem>>(e.Result);

everything works flawlessly.

A Binding Experience :: Tip o' The Day

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