WPF binding to Listbox selectedItem

Question

Can anyone help with the following - been playing about with this but can\'t for the life of me get it to work.

I\'ve got a view model which contains the following p

Answer 1

Inside the DataTemplate you're working in the context of a Rule, that's why you cannot bind to SelectedRule.Name -- there is no such property on a Rule. To bind to the original data context (which is your ViewModel) you can write:

UPDATE: regarding the SelectedItem property binding, it looks perfectly valid, I tried the same on my machine and it works fine. Here is my full test app:

XAML:

Code behind:

namespace TestWpfApplication
{
    /// 

    /// Interaction logic for ListBoxSelectedItem.xaml
    /// 
    public partial class ListBoxSelectedItem : Window
    {
        public ListBoxSelectedItem()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
    }


    public class Rule
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
    }

    public class ListBoxSelectedItemViewModel
    {
        public ListBoxSelectedItemViewModel()
        {
            Rules = new ObservableCollection()
            {
                new Rule() { Name = "Rule 1"},
                new Rule() { Name = "Rule 2"},
                new Rule() { Name = "Rule 3"},
            };
        }

        public ObservableCollection Rules { get; private set; }

        private Rule selectedRule;
        public Rule SelectedRule
        {
            get { return selectedRule; }
            set
            {
                selectedRule = value;
            }
        }
    }
}