TreeView, HierarchicalDataTemplate and recursive Data

Mare Infinitus picture Mare Infinitus · Mar 6, 2013 · Viewed 29.4k times · Source

For my treeview I have two different classes that provide the ItemsSource.

public class TreeViewModel : ViewModelBase
{
    public ObservableCollection<NodeViewModel> Items { get; set; }
}

public class NodeViewModel : ViewModelBase
{
    public string Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public ObservableCollection<NodeViewModel> Children { get; set; }
}

Now I want my TreeView to display the Items in TreeViewModel and show hierarchical data as provided by the NodeViewModel.

Here is my XAML

<Window x:Class="TreeViewMasterDetails.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:TreeViewMasterDetails" 
        Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
    <Grid>
        <TreeView Height="Auto" 
                  HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" 
                  Margin="10" 
                  VerticalAlignment="Stretch" 
                  Width="Auto">
            <TreeView.Resources>
                <HierarchicalDataTemplate DataType="x:Type local:TreeViewModel" ItemsSource="{Binding Items}">
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Name}"></TextBlock>
                </HierarchicalDataTemplate>
                <HierarchicalDataTemplate DataType="x:Type local:NodeViewModel" ItemsSource="{Binding Children}">
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}"></TextBlock>
                </HierarchicalDataTemplate>
            </TreeView.Resources>
        </TreeView>
    </Grid>
</Window>

Have tried to provide Items as the ItemsSource of the TreeView. It does not show the data hierarchically, if displaying anything.

And I tried using the ItemTemplate instead of the TreeView.Resources, too.

What is wrong about it?

Perhaps a problem is the first TextBlock Text Binding? I want to display the Name property of the NodeViewModel in Items there.

Answer

sa_ddam213 picture sa_ddam213 · Mar 6, 2013

You should only have to declare the HierarchicalDataTemplate for NodeViewModel as this is the only thing showing in the TreeView, and bind the actual ItemSource to the TreeView

<TreeView ItemsSource="{Binding Items}">
    <TreeView.Resources>
        <HierarchicalDataTemplate DataType="{x:Type local:NodeViewModel}" ItemsSource="{Binding Children}">
            <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}"></TextBlock>
        </HierarchicalDataTemplate>
    </TreeView.Resources>
</TreeView>

Full Example

Xaml:

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication13.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WpfApplication13"
        Title="MainWindow" x:Name="UI" Width="343" Height="744.625" >

    <TreeView DataContext="{Binding ElementName=UI, Path=TreeModel}" ItemsSource="{Binding Items}">
        <TreeView.Resources>
            <HierarchicalDataTemplate DataType="{x:Type local:NodeViewModel}" ItemsSource="{Binding Children}">
                <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}"></TextBlock>
            </HierarchicalDataTemplate>
        </TreeView.Resources>
    </TreeView>

</Window>

Code:

public partial class MainWindow : Window
{

    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    public TreeViewModel TreeModel
    {
        get
        {
            return new TreeViewModel
            {
                Items = new ObservableCollection<NodeViewModel>{
                           new NodeViewModel { Name = "Root", Children =  new ObservableCollection<NodeViewModel> {
                              new NodeViewModel { Name = "Level1" ,  Children = new ObservableCollection<NodeViewModel>{ 
                                  new NodeViewModel{ Name = "Level2"}}} } }}
            };
        }
    }
}

public class TreeViewModel
{
    public ObservableCollection<NodeViewModel> Items { get; set; }
}

public class NodeViewModel
{
    public string Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public ObservableCollection<NodeViewModel> Children { get; set; }
}

Result:

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