I'm trying to build a WPF user interface containing a TabControl, and a TextBlock.
I want to bind these two controls to an underlying collection of instances of the following class:
class PageModel
{
public string Title {get;set;}
public string TabCaption {get;set;}
public FrameworkElement TabContent {get;set}
}
The tab control should display a tab for each PageModel.
The TextBlock should display the Title of the currently selected tab.
How can I achieve this result?
<TabControl x:Name="_tabControl" ItemsSource="{Binding PageModels}">
<TabControl.ItemContainerStyle>
<Style TargetType="TabItem">
<Setter Property="Header" Value="{Binding TabCaption}"/>
<Setter Property="Content" Value="{Binding TabContent}"/>
</Style>
</TabControl.ItemContainerStyle>
</TabControl>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding SelectedItem.Title, ElementName=_tabControl}"/>
I also found another solution to this here using ItemTemplate and ContentTemplate.
Also for any WPF newbies like me, after some headaches and frustration I realized that the collection of page models needs to be an ObservableCollection<PageModel>
instead of a List<PageModel>
or any changes to the list will not be reflected by the tabs (i.e. you can't add or remove a tab if it's a list).
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