在WPF中将ComboBox绑定到XML

Question

I know this question has been asked to death, but I have tried lots of the suggested answers I have found and the Combo Box is still not populating when I start the WPF in VS2013. Here it goes. I have an XML document called People.xml that is formatted like so...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<People>
  <Person>
    <personName>John Doe</personName>
    <personEmail>someone@yahoo.com</personEmail>
    <personReports>List of reports they get go here.</personReports>
</Person>

In App.xml portion of the application I have this as a resource:

<XmlDataProvider x:Key="People" Source="\DataSources\People.xml" XPath="People" IsInitialLoadEnabled="True" />

Then, in the XAML for the combo box, I have it listed as this:

<ComboBox x:Name="employeeNameBox" IsReadOnly="False" HorizontalAlignment="Left" IsEditable="True" ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource People}, XPath=./Person/personName}">

What I am trying to get at is populate the combo box with all of the personName elements in the XML doc.

Again, I have tried several different ways to try and get this to load, and the combo box always comes up empty. I am relatively new to the data binding structures and WPF's in general, so any help I could get would be great.

Thanks!

Answer 1

As for me, simpliest way is XmlSerializer .

public class Person
{
    public string personName;
    public string personEmail;
    public string personReports;
}

public class People
{
    [XmlElement("Person")]
    public List<Person> Persons;
}

Load data:

var people = (People)new XmlSerializer(typeof(People)).Deserialize(stream);
employeeNameBox.ItemsSource = people.Persons;

ComboBox code:

<ComboBox x:Name="employeeNameBox" IsReadOnly="False" HorizontalAlignment="Left" IsEditable="True" DisplayMemberPath="personName">