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Binding DockLayoutManager.ItemsSource to a collection of interfaces?

created 12 years ago

I have a collection of documents to be displayed in the DocumentGroup area. It is a collection of interfaces instead of classes.
Previously I bind them to the DocumentGroup.ItemsSource so I could use the ItemContentTemplateSelector to render the interfaces using DataTempaltes. (You know WPF DataTemplates do not support interfaces directly).

However then I found a big problem with binding to DocumentGroup.ItemsSource - the documents cannot be dragged!

After some research realized I have to bind the documents to DockLayoutManager.ItemsSource. But DockLayoutManager does not support item template selector so I cannot bind to collection of interfaces!

Note that this is a loosely coupled application and interface is king. Any solutions?

Thanks in advance.

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Answers approved by DevExpress Support

created 12 years ago (modified 12 years ago)

Hi Charles,
To achieve this goal, you can use the DocumentGroup.ItemContentTemplateSelector and DocumentGroup.ItemCaptionTemplateSelector properties. I have changed the How to use the IMVVMDockingProperties interface in an MVVM application example to demonstrate how to use them. Please take a moment to review it in the attachment.
Thanks

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