How can I data bind a list of strings to a ListBox in WPF/WP7?

Question

I am trying to bind a list of string values to a listbox so that their values are listed line by line. Right now I use this:

Answer 1

If simply put that your ItemsSource is bound like this:

YourListBox.ItemsSource = new List { "One", "Two", "Three" };

Your XAML should look like:

Update:

This is a solution when using a DataContext. Following code is the viewmodel you will be passing to the DataContext of the page and the setting of the DataContext:

public class MyViewModel
{
    public List Items
    {
        get { return new List { "One", "Two", "Three" }; }
    }
}

//This can be done in the Loaded event of the page:
DataContext = new MyViewModel();

Your XAML now looks like this:

The advantage of this approach is that you can put a lot more properties or complex objects in the MyViewModel class and extract them in the XAML. For example to pass a List of Person objects:

public class ViewModel
{
    public List Items
    {
        get
        {
            return new List
            {
                new Person { Name = "P1", Age = 1 },
                new Person { Name = "P2", Age = 2 }
            };
        }
    }
}

public class Person
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Age { get; set; }
}

And the XAML:

Hope this helps! :)