How to display row numbers in a ListView?

Question

The obvious solution would be to have a row number property on a ModelView element, but the drawback is that you have to re-generate those when you add records or change sor

Answer 1

I found solution that will work even in case when you need to move your elements inside the collection. So actually what we need to do for it is notify dummy property "ListNumbersNotify" every time our collection is changed and bind everything with that tricky MultiBinding converter.

XAML:

                
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Converter:

    public abstract class MultiConvertorBase : MarkupExtension, IMultiValueConverter
where T : class, new()
{
    public abstract object Convert(object[] values, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture);

    public virtual object[] ConvertBack(object value, Type[] targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        return null;
    }

    public override object ProvideValue(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
    {
        if (_converter == null)
            _converter = new T();
        return _converter;
    }

    private static T _converter = null;
}

public class NumberingConvertor : MultiConvertorBase
{
    public override object Convert(object[] values, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        return ((ListView)values[1]).Items.IndexOf(values[0]) + 1;
    }
}

Code behind:

    public partial class AddModulesWindow: Window, INotifyPropertyChanged
    {
    ...
    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
    private void OnPropertyChanged(string prop)
    {
        PropertyChanged?.Invoke(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(prop));
    }

    public object ListNumbersNotify { get; }

    public AddModulesWindow(ICore core)
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        this.core = core;
        CurrentModuleInfos = new ObservableCollection(core.Modules.Select(m => m?.ModuleInfo));
        CurrentModuleInfos.CollectionChanged += CurrentModuleTypes_CollectionChanged;

        ListViewCurrentModules.ItemsSource = CurrentModuleInfos;
    }

    private void CurrentModuleTypes_CollectionChanged(object sender, System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        OnPropertyChanged("ListNumbersNotify");
    }