Please forgive my ignorance. I am new to vb.net and WPF. I have a comboBox that has a list of colors like this. By the way this is in WPF.
Public Sub New()
InitializeComponent()
cmbColors.ItemsSource = GetType(Colors).GetProperties()
End Sub
In the XAML the comboBox is created as follows:
<ComboBox Name="cmbColors" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="29,35,0,0"
Grid.Row="1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="120">
<ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Rectangle Fill="{Binding Name}" Width="16" Height="16"
Margin="0,2,5,2"/>
<TextBlock x:Name="cmbColorsText" Text="{Binding Name}"/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
</ComboBox>
What I'm trying to do is when the program is run start with a beginning background color of grey, and when a new background color is selected from the comboBox the back ground will update. Here's the XAML of the element that I'm trying to bind to the selection.
<Border BorderBrush="{x:Null}" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" Background="{Binding Text, ElementName=cmbColors}">
<TextBlock Text="PRACTICE" Style="{StaticResource linkButtons}"/>
I have gone through every (string) type in the property window for the border>background>create binding>Element>comboBox and for some reason (that I can't determine) I have either missed the appropriate one or am looking at this the wrong way.
Thank you in advance!!!
You are binding the Background to a string, but the Background will need a ColorBrush. So, if your combo ItemsSource already contains items that are of ColorBrush then you can just bind to SelectedItem rather than Text.
Or you can use a converter in your Background binding, that takes the string and returns a SolidColorBrush, say.
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