How to get the index of the current ItemsControl item?

Question

Is there any way to get the index of the current ItemsControl item in WPF?

For example, I want to do something like:

<ItemsControl>
    <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <TextBox Text="{Binding current_index}">
            </TextBox>
        </DataTemplate>
    </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>

so that after this, the first TextBox will show text "0", second "1", third "2" ....

Answer 1

I would suggest looking at:

WPF ItemsControl the current ListItem Index in the ItemsSource

It explains how to work around the fact that there isn't a built in Index property on the ItemsControl.

EDIT:

I tried the following code:

<Window.Resources>
    <x:Array Type="{x:Type sys:String}" x:Key="MyArray">
        <sys:String>One</sys:String>
        <sys:String>Two</sys:String>
        <sys:String>Three</sys:String>
    </x:Array>
</Window.Resources>
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{StaticResource MyArray}" AlternationCount="100" >
    <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=(ItemsControl.AlternationIndex), 
                RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}, 
                StringFormat={}Index is {0}}">
            </TextBlock>
        </DataTemplate>
    </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl >

And get a window with three TextBlocks like:

[Index is 0]
[Index is 1]
[Index is 2]

Answer 2

Here how I get ItemIndex

<ItemsControl>
        <ItemsControl.Resources>
            <CollectionViewSource x:Key="ProductItems" Source="{Binding SelectedScanViewModel.Products}">
                <CollectionViewSource.SortDescriptions>
                    <componentModel:SortDescription PropertyName="ProductName" Direction="Ascending"/>
                </CollectionViewSource.SortDescriptions>
            </CollectionViewSource>
        </ItemsControl.Resources>
        <ItemsControl.ItemsSource>
            <Binding Source="{StaticResource ProductItems}"/>
        </ItemsControl.ItemsSource>
        <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
            <DataTemplate>
                <StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Center">
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding ProductName}" HorizontalAlignment="Center" />
                    <TextBox Name="txtFocus" Text="{Binding Qty}" MinWidth="80" HorizontalAlignment="Center"
                                     behaviors:SelectTextOnFocus.Active="True">
                        <TextBox.TabIndex>
                            <MultiBinding Converter="{StaticResource GetIndexMultiConverter}" ConverterParameter="0">
                                <Binding Path="."/>
                                <Binding RelativeSource="{RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type ItemsControl}}" Path="ItemsSource"/>
                            </MultiBinding>
                        </TextBox.TabIndex>
                    </TextBox>
                </StackPanel>
            </DataTemplate>
        </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
        <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
            <ItemsPanelTemplate>
                <UniformGrid Columns="{Binding SelectedScanViewModel.Products.Count}"/>
            </ItemsPanelTemplate>
        </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
    </ItemsControl>

And the converter:

public class GetIndexMultiConverter : IMultiValueConverter
{
    public object Convert(object[] values, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        var collection = (ListCollectionView)values[1];
        var itemIndex = collection.IndexOf(values[0]);

        return itemIndex;
    }

    public object[] ConvertBack(object value, Type[] targetTypes, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException("GetIndexMultiConverter_ConvertBack");
    }
}

By this way you can bind every type of collection to the ItemSource and he will be change to ListCollectionView. So the converter will work for different collection type.

xmlns:componentModel="clr-namespace:System.ComponentModel;assembly=WindowsBase"