WPF Combobox not updating when collection is changed

Question

I am new to WPF.

I am trying to bind collection of string to combobox.

public ObservableCollection<string> ListString {get; set;}

Binding and datacontext are set as follows

<Window 
        x:Class="Assignment2.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:validators="clr-namespace:Assignment2"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525"
        DataContext="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Path=.}">
    <Grid>
        <ComboBox  Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="109,103,0,0" Name="StringComboBox" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="120" SelectionChanged="StringComboBox_SelectionChanged">
            <ComboBox.ItemsSource>
                <Binding Path="ListString" BindsDirectlyToSource="True" Mode="TwoWay" UpdateSourceTrigger="PropertyChanged"></Binding>
            </ComboBox.ItemsSource>
        </ComboBox>

I came to know that this is happening because collection is updating. If I write

public MainWindow()
        {

            InputString = "";
            ListString = new ObservableCollection<string>();
            ListString.Add("AAA");
            ListString.Add("BBB");
            ListString.Add("CCC");
          InitializeComponent();

        }

It does work but if I am move InitializeComponent() above at first line as follows, it doesn't work.

  public MainWindow()
            {
               InitializeComponent();
                InputString = "";
                ListString = new ObservableCollection<string>();
                ListString.Add("AAA");
                ListString.Add("BBB");
                ListString.Add("CCC");                
            }

What Should I do??

Answer 1

Solved the problem. Implemented INotifyPropertyChanged as follows

public partial class MainWindow : Window, INotifyPropertyChanged

modified the accessors as follows

    private ObservableCollection<string> listString;
    public ObservableCollection<string> ListString 
    {
        get
        {
            return listString;
        }
        set
        {
            listString = value;
            NotifyPropertyChanged("ListString"); // method implemented below
        }
    }

and added the following event and method to raise the event

public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
public void NotifyPropertyChanged(string name)
{
    if (PropertyChanged != null)
    {
        PropertyChanged(this,new PropertyChangedEventArgs(name));
    }
}

and it works B)