Thread: WPF ListViewItem subitems

It seems odd to do this without data binding. After all, the checkboxes, text box, and combo box must all be related to some sort of data object; otherwise you wouldn't need them. Also, ListViews don't really have columns. They're just a collection of ListViewItems.

If you really don't want to do data binding, then you'll have to traverse the visual tree to get the state of your UI objects. For example, here's a sample ListView:

Code:

<ListView Name="lstView">
    <ListViewItem>
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
            <CheckBox />
            <CheckBox />
            <TextBox />
            <ComboBox />
        </StackPanel>
    </ListViewItem>
    <ListViewItem>
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
            <CheckBox />
            <CheckBox />
            <TextBox />
            <ComboBox />
        </StackPanel>
    </ListViewItem>
    <ListViewItem>
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
            <CheckBox />
            <CheckBox />
            <TextBox />
            <ComboBox />
        </StackPanel>
    </ListViewItem>
</ListView>

To toggle the second CheckBox on the first ListViewItem, you'd do something like this:

Code:

ListViewItem lstViewItem = (ListViewItem)lstView.Items[0];
Panel p = (Panel)lstViewItem.Content;
((CheckBox)p.Children[1]).IsChecked = !((CheckBox)p.Children[1]).IsChecked;

It's not pretty, but you can do it. Whether or not it's a good idea is a totally different question.