Listview 2列WPF

Question

Another newbie question. I would like to open a text file and bind to a listview(WPF) with 2 columns, ID and Details. Here is a copy of the txt file. So ID will contain host and os name and so on and Details will contain the info to the right. This list is much larger, but you get the point. Yes I am new to c# and WPF. Your help is appreciated..

Host Name:                 MD1HXQTC
OS Name:                   Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise
OS Version:                6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
BIOS Version:              Hewlett-Packard M70 Ver. 01.08, 3/16/2015

Answer 1

The ListView is a descendant of the ListBox that allows to define custom views rather than a straight list.

The easiest way to get a list with columns is to have a GridView as the view of your ListView.

So if you have a class like this:

public class SomeClass
{
    public string FirstProperty { get; set; }
    public string SecondProperty { get; set; }
}

//Actually you will also need your setters to raise the PropertyChanged event but it's not in the scope of the question.

You can declare your ListView as follows: (notice the DisplayMemberBindings have the names of my properties)

<ListView>
    <ListView.View>
        <GridView>
            <GridViewColumn Header="First Property"
                            DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding FirstProperty}"/>
            <GridViewColumn Header="Second Property"
                            DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding SecondProperty}"/>
        </GridView>
    </ListView.View>
</ListView>

Then you will need to make your collection of SomeClass to be the ItemsSource of the ListView.

Answer 2

Created My Class

public class Gambit
{
    public string GetID { get; set; }
    public string GetDetails { get; set; }
}

Added Observable Collection

private ObservableCollection<Gambit> gambitCollection = new ObservableCollection<Gambit>();

Wrote method to import txt file and bind objects

Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog openfiledialog = new Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog();
        openfiledialog.FileName = ""; // Default file name
        openfiledialog.DefaultExt = ".txt"; // Default file extension
        openfiledialog.Filter = "txt files (.txt)|*.txt"; // Filter files by extension

        // Show open file dialog box



        bool? result = openfiledialog.ShowDialog();

        // Process open file dialog box results
        if (result == true)
        {

            var fileName = openfiledialog.FileName;

            StreamReader file = new StreamReader(fileName);

            string line = "";

            while ((line = file.ReadLine()) != null)
            {
                var splitLine = line.Split(':');


                if (splitLine.Count() > 1)
                {
                    gambitCollection.Add(new Gambit() { GetID = splitLine[0].Trim(), GetDetails = splitLine[1].Trim() });
                }
            }

        }

Binded Itemsource to Collection

ListViewRPMInfo.ItemsSource = gambitCollection;

Thank you to Babgev for getting me started and all others who pointed me in directions.