Autocompletebox text in Silverlight
- by Ciaran
I'm having trouble getting the autocomplete box in System.Windows.Controls.Input working as I wish. When I start typing the dropdown section that displays the filtered list doesn't show the property that I'm binding to, it shows the class name instead.
So in the example below, when I type in my - instead of showing 'My Name' it shows MyNamespace.Person. However, when I select the item from the autocomplete list, it displays the FullName property in the textbox. I'm sure I'm just missing a simple autocomplete box property somewhere but I can't see it.
Example code:
public class Person
{
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
public string FullName
{
get { return string.Format("{0} {1}", FirstName, LastName); }
}
}
In my xaml code behind I create some Person objects and store them in a list and bind that list to an autocomplete box
List<Person> people = new List<Person>();
people.Add(new Person { FirstName = "My", LastName = "Name" });
people.Add(new Person { FirstName = "Fernando", LastName = "Torres" });
acbNames.ItemsSource = people;
My xaml:
<my:AutoCompleteBox Name="acbNames" ValueMemberPath="FullName" />
/* after entering 'my', auto complete displays 'MyNamespace.Person' instead of 'My Name', but displays 'My Name' after selecting the item from the list */
