Xaml Intellisense : specify the binding context of a property type of a custom element

Question

I have a Xamarin forms project and I created a layout with an ItemsSource and an ItemTemplate property.

I bind a list to my itemsSource and then the layout create the items based on the itemTemplate.

Everything works fine except I would like to get the right intellisense suggestion when I create the ItemTemplate . I would like to spectify that the BindingContext of my ItemTemplate is of type T if my ItemsSource is List<T> .

I don't know how I can specify this in my code. Do you have an y suggestion or at least some google keywords?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

<ListView x:Name="ListViewName">
</ListView>

And then call it in Xaml.cs:

    public class ClassName
    {
    public ClassName()
    {
    var control = ListViewName;
    }

    }

Answer 2

If I understand you correctly, You are asking to bind MVVM binding properties in XAML file. Try this, Say your page name is HomePage

<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms" 
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
 x:Class="DataBinding101.HomePage">
    <StackLayout Padding="0,20,0,0">    
        <StackLayout Padding="0,20,0,0" Orientation="Horizontal">
            <Label Text="Your forename is:" />
            <Label Text="{Binding Forename}" />
        </StackLayout>
        <StackLayout Orientation="Horizontal">
            <Label Text="Your surname is:" />
            <Label Text="{Binding Surname}" />
        </StackLayout>
    </StackLayout>
</ContentPage>

Homepage.xaml.cs

public partial class HomePage : ContentPage
{
    public HomePage ()
    {
        InitializeComponent ();
        BindingContext = new DetailsViewModel ();
    }
}

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