WPF ComboBox resets selected item when item-source changes

Question

Consider the following XAML:

<ComboBox Name="CompanyComboBox" 
    HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
    ItemsSource="{Binding Path=GlobalData.Companies}" 
    SelectedValuePath="Id"
    SelectedValue="{Binding Customer.CompanyId, ValidatesOnDataErrors=True}"
    DisplayMemberPath="Name" />

GlobalData.Companies is a collection (IEnumerable<Company>) of companies; this collection can be reloaded on background (it is downloaded from a webservice). When this happens, ComboBox correctly reloads items via binding. However as a side-effect, it also resets the selected item!

I have used Reflector to inspect combo-box sources and apparently this is intended behavior.

Is there any "nice" way how to get around this? What I want to achieve, is that if the user selects "Company A" and reloads list of companies afterwards, then "Company A" stays selected (assuming it is in the new list).

Answer 1

Please try with the following code. Enable the following property to the combo box

IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True"