How can I access the ListViewItems of a WPF ListView?

Question

Within an event, I\'d like to put the focus on a specific TextBox within the ListViewItem\'s template. The XAML looks like this:

Answer 1

To understand why ContainerFromItem didn't work for me, here some background. The event handler where I needed this functionality looks like this:

var item = new SomeListItem();
SomeList.Add(item);
ListViewItem = SomeList.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(item); // returns null

After the Add() the ItemContainerGenerator doesn't immediately create the container, because the CollectionChanged event could be handled on a non-UI-thread. Instead it starts an asynchronous call and waits for the UI thread to callback and execute the actual ListViewItem control generation.

To be notified when this happens, the ItemContainerGenerator exposes a StatusChanged event which is fired after all Containers are generated.

Now I have to listen to this event and decide whether the control currently want's to set focus or not.