Binding a WPF ComboBox to ObservableCollection

Sarah 186 Reputation points
2022-05-10T10:56:38.47+00:00

I usea ComboBox that doesn't seem to update the SelectedItem.

<ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding Path=CountryEntries}"
          DisplayMemberPath="Country"
          SelectedValuePath="Country"
          SelectedValue="{Binding Path=CountryValue}"
          SelectedItem="{Binding Path=SelectedCountry}"/>

The ItemsSource of ComboBox is bound to a property "CountryEntries" on ViewModelClassB.

public class ViewModelClassB : INotifyPropertyChanged
{


    private readonly CollectionView countryEntries = new CollectionView(ListOfCountry()); // Type of ListOfCountry() is ObservableCollection<ClassA>
    public CollectionView CountryEntries
    {
        get
        {
            return countryEntries;
        }
    }

    public ClassB SelectedCountry
    {
        get => selectedCountry;
        set
        {
            this.selectedCountry = value;
            OnPropertyChanged();
            OnPropertyChanged(nameof(CityView));
        }
    }
}


public class ClassA : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    public string Country { get; set; }
    public string City { get; set; }
}


public class ClassB : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    public string Pro1 { get; set; }
    public string Pro2 { get; set; }
    public string CountryValue{ get; set; }

}

I get the following error:

System.NullReferenceException: 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.'

SelectedCountry.get returned null.

I've checked my code several times and can't seem to find anything that I'm doing wrong.

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  1. Hui Liu-MSFT 48,581 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2022-05-11T03:05:57.937+00:00

    MainWindow.xaml:

    <Grid>  
            <ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding Path=CountryEntries}" Width="200" Height="60"  
               DisplayMemberPath="Country"   
               SelectedValuePath="Country"  
               SelectedItem="{Binding Path=SelectedCountry,  Mode=TwoWay}"/>  
        </Grid>  
    

    MainWindow.xaml.cs:

    using System.Collections.ObjectModel;  
    using System.ComponentModel;  
    using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;  
    using System.Windows;  
    using System.Windows.Data;  
    
    namespace ComboboxFilter  
    {  
      public partial class MainWindow : Window  
      {  
        public MainWindow()  
        {  
          InitializeComponent();  
          DataContext=new ViewModelClassB();  
        }  
      }  
      public class ViewModelClassB : INotifyPropertyChanged  
      {  
        private ObservableCollection<ClassA> listOfCountry;  
        public ObservableCollection<ClassA> ListOfCountry  
        {  
          get  
          {  
            return listOfCountry;  
          }  
          set { listOfCountry=value; OnPropertyChanged("ListOfCountry");}  
        }  
        private readonly ICollectionView countryEntries ;   
        public ICollectionView CountryEntries  
        {  
          get  
          {  
            return countryEntries;  
          }  
        }  
        public ViewModelClassB()  
        {  
          listOfCountry=new ObservableCollection<ClassA>();  
          listOfCountry.Add(new ClassA() {  City="Beijing",  Country="China"});  
          listOfCountry.Add(new ClassA() {  City= "New York",  Country= "United States" });  
          listOfCountry.Add(new ClassA() {  City= "Paris ",  Country= "France" });  
          countryEntries=CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(listOfCountry);  
        }  
        private ClassB selectedCountry;  
        public ClassB SelectedCountry  
        {  
          get => selectedCountry;  
          set  
          {  
            this.selectedCountry = value;  
            OnPropertyChanged("SelectedCountry");  
            //OnPropertyChanged(nameof(CityView));  
          }  
        }  
        public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;  
        internal void OnPropertyChanged([CallerMemberName] string propName = "") => PropertyChanged?.Invoke(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propName));  
      }  
      public class ClassA   
      {  
        public string Country { get; set; }  
        public string City { get; set; }  
      }  
      public class ClassB   
      {  
        public string Pro1 { get; set; }  
        public string Pro2 { get; set; }  
        public string CountryValue { get; set; }  
      }  
    }  
    

    The result:

    200806-image.png


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