ListBox always auto selects first item

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Shimmy Weitzhandler picture Shimmy Weitzhandler · Sep 9, 2009 · Viewed 15.2k times · Source

ListBox's behavior is that the first item is selected automatically, how can I avoid that??

Note: I prefer to do this with pure xaml, if you have any code-behind ideas then please don't bother yourself.

Answer

Joe picture Joe · Nov 19, 2013

Try

IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="False"

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