How to set silverlight comboboxitem value in xaml

Question

I create a datatemplate for a combobox as follows:

<DataTemplate x:Key="AircraftTypeTemplate">
     <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Width="340">
           <ComboBox>
               <ComboBoxItem>CJ1</ComboBoxItem>
               <ComboBoxItem>CJ3</ComboBoxItem>
               <ComboBoxItem>Bravo</ComboBoxItem>
               <ComboBoxItem>Excel</ComboBoxItem>
               <ComboBoxItem>Sovereign</ComboBoxItem>
           </ComboBox>
     </StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>

It renders fine, but I would like to be able to associate a value with each of the items without having to bind it to some data context. For example I would like the CJ1 comboboxitem to have a value of 5. How would I set those in XAML?

Like:

<ComboBoxItem Value="5">CJ1</ComboBoxItem>

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can set the Name property to be any arbitrary string and use that. For more flexibility, you can use the Tag property, which according to MSDN:

Gets or sets an arbitrary object value that can be used to store custom information about this object.

You can read more about Tag here. I'd say Tag is probably better as opposed to bending Name to your will, and you can stick a string into Tag just as easily as Name.