I am trying to bind design time data in WPF. I have a viewModel and my design time data class inherits from View Model. I am populating the data that I want to see at design time in constructor of the class like so
public class SalesModelDesignTimeData : SalesModel
{
public SalesModelDesignTimeData()
{
Items.Add(new SaleItem { Sku = "001", Title = "Pepsi", CostPrice = 10.0, Quantity = 1 });
Items.Add(new SaleItem { Sku = "002", Title = "Coca Cola", CostPrice = 10.0, Quantity = 1 });
Items.Add(new SaleItem { Sku = "003", Title = "Colgate Tooth Paste", CostPrice = 8.0, Quantity = 1 });
Items.Add(new SaleItem { Sku = "004", Title = "Lipton Yello Label", CostPrice = 12.5, Quantity = 1 });
Items.Add(new SaleItem { Sku = "005", Title = "Sugar", CostPrice = 5.0, Quantity = 1 });
}
}
Here is the XAML
<Window
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:designData="clr-namespace:Tienda.UI.DesignTimeData"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d" x:Class="Tienda.UI.Views.Sales"
Title="Sales" d:DesignWidth="775"
d:DataContext="{d:DesignInstance designData:SalesModelDesignTimeData,IsDesignTimeCreatable=True}">
<Grid >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="2*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="2*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="1*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<DataGrid HorizontalAlignment="Left" DataContext="{Binding Items}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Test}" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" />
</Grid>
The problem that I am facing is VS is giving me an "Object Reference not set to instance of an object error" in my XAML file where I am setting the d:DataContext
If I remove the constructor from my class then the error goes away and it binding seems to work.
Can someone please tell me what am I doing wrong?
No need for that crap
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
as explained by user hopeless in the comment.
This will work and is the way to go.
<Window.DataContext>
<designData:SalesModelDesignTimeData />
</Window.DataContext>
...
<DataGrid HorizontalAlignment="Left" ItemsSource="{Binding Items}"/>
// Complete code after you commented that he still can't see design time data
MainWindow.xaml
<Window x:Class="WpfDataControls.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WpfDataControls"
Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
<Window.DataContext>
<local:SalesModelDesignTimeData />
</Window.DataContext>
<Grid >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="2*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="2*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="1*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<DataGrid HorizontalAlignment="Left" ItemsSource="{Binding Items}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Test}" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" />
</Grid>
</Window>
MainWindow.xaml.cs
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Navigation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
namespace WpfDataControls
{
/// <summary>
/// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
/// </summary>
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
}
public class SalesModelDesignTimeData : SalesModel
{
public SalesModelDesignTimeData()
{
Items.Add(new SaleItem { Sku = "001", Title = "Pepsi", CostPrice = 10.0, Quantity = 1 });
Items.Add(new SaleItem { Sku = "002", Title = "Coca Cola", CostPrice = 10.0, Quantity = 1 });
Items.Add(new SaleItem { Sku = "003", Title = "Colgate Tooth Paste", CostPrice = 8.0, Quantity = 1 });
Items.Add(new SaleItem { Sku = "004", Title = "Lipton Yello Label", CostPrice = 12.5, Quantity = 1 });
Items.Add(new SaleItem { Sku = "005", Title = "Sugar", CostPrice = 5.0, Quantity = 1 });
}
}
public class SalesModel
{
public List<SaleItem> Items { get; set; }
public SalesModel()
{
Items = new List<SaleItem>();
}
}
public class SaleItem
{
public string Sku { get; set; }
public string Title { get; set; }
public double CostPrice { get; set; }
public int Quantity { get; set; }
}
}
As it turns out the code that I posted works just fine.
This link helped me to fix the issue.
WPF/MVVM setting UserControl.DataContext in XAML results in Object reference not set?
My constructor was creating chain of objects, one of which was throwing exception. Once I fixed that problem, the design time binding started to work.
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