TreeListView Columns binding (or creating dynamically)

Hi Ryan,

That's true, you can't bind to create columns themselves.  The first question I'd ask is, do you have a fixed set of total columns (like 10) or do they really vary, where you might have any number of random columns eventually?  If the former, there is a simple IsVisible property on each column that you can set to false on ones that should be hidden.

Otherwise, I'd probably recommend just handling some event notification for when you need to update the columns collection.  When you get that, remove all columns after the fixed 3 and dynamically create the new columns in code, adding them to the Columns collection.  

Thanks for the quick reply.

The number of columns could be anything, after the first 2.

I'm able to generate the columns using an attached property (below for reference, slightly modified), however I'm not quite sure how to go about hooking up the information that should be in that column.

i.e. in the example I have a 'Columns' collection on the ViewModel, the Root of the TreeListView is 'StepsForTreeView', each step has another collection in it which becomes the data for the columns. Using 'DisplayMemberBinding' on the dynamically created columns works, but their template is just a TextBlock, I cannot figure out how to appropriately assign a CellTemplate.

(I know this is a little off the beaten path, and not specifically an 'issue' with the control, just hoping for a suggestion from the developer. THANKS)

<actiproGrids:TreeListView recipeStepper:CollectionToTreeListViewColumnHelper.ControlPoints="{Binding Columns}" RootItem="{Binding StepsForTreeView}">

public class CollectionToTreeListViewColumnHelper : DependencyObject
{
	public static ColumnList GetColumns(DependencyObject d)
	{
		return (ColumnList)d.GetValue(ColumnsProperty);
	}

	public static void SetColumns(DependencyObject d, ColumnList value)
	{
		d.SetValue(ColumnsProperty, value);
	}

	public static readonly DependencyProperty
		ColumnsProperty = DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached("Columns",
			typeof(ColumnList),
			typeof(CollectionToTreeListViewColumnHelper),
			new PropertyMetadata(
				new PropertyChangedCallback(OnColumnsChanged)));

	private static void OnColumnsChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
	{
		var tree = (TreeListView)d;
		var columnss = (ColumnList)e.NewValue;

		if (columns == null) return;
 
                int pt = 0;
		foreach (var col in columns)
		{
			var newcolumn = new TreeListViewColumn();
			newcolumn.Header = col.Name;
			//newcolumn.CellTemplate = // tbd.. 
                        //newcolumn.DisplayMemberBinding = new Binding($"Actions[{pt}]");  // this does not work either. needs Template.
			tree.Columns.Add(newcolumn);
                        
                        pt++;  
		}
	}
}

Hi Ryan,

What you are doing there generally seems fine.  As you saw, you want to probably be able to set the CellTemplate (where you have it commented out).  What you can do is have all your DataTemplates in your Application.Resources, each with a unique x:Key.  Then call tree.TryFindResource() to locate the appropriate DataTemplate based on a matching resource key that is tracked in your colum view model.