Associate an object with a WPF TreeView

Question

I would like to know how to associate a custom data type with TreeView.

A data type is basically an arraialist of objects that contain other arraylists. Access will look something like this:

foreach (DeviceGroup dg in system.deviceGroups)
    {
        foreach (DeviceType dt in dg.deviceTypes)
        {
            foreach (DeviceInstance di in dt.deviceInstances)
            {

            }
        }
    }

I would like it to TreeViewlook something like this:

DeviceGroup1

 --> DeviceType1
      --DeviceInstance1
      --DeviceInstance2
 --> DeviceType2
      --DeviceInstance1

DeviceGroup2

 --> DeviceType1
      --DeviceInstance1
 --> DeviceType2

Answer 1

Ok, this is where it will HierarchicalDataTemplatesave you. The trick is that you need to use two different hierarchical templates, since there is a three-level hierarchy here. I illustrated a simple one UserControl. Firstly, here is the code that creates the model data, similar to what you have:

public partial class ThreeLevelTreeView : UserControl
{
    public ArrayList DeviceGroups { get; private set; }

    public ThreeLevelTreeView()
    {
        DeviceInstance inst1 = new DeviceInstance() { Name = "Instance1" };
        DeviceInstance inst2 = new DeviceInstance() { Name = "Instance2" };
        DeviceInstance inst3 = new DeviceInstance() { Name = "Instance3" };
        DeviceInstance inst4 = new DeviceInstance() { Name = "Instance4" };

        DeviceType type1 = new DeviceType() { Name = "Type1", DeviceInstances = new ArrayList() { inst1, inst2 } };
        DeviceType type2 = new DeviceType() { Name = "Type2", DeviceInstances = new ArrayList() { inst3 } };
        DeviceType type3 = new DeviceType() { Name = "Type3", DeviceInstances = new ArrayList() { inst4 } };
        DeviceType type4 = new DeviceType() { Name = "Type4" };

        DeviceGroup group1 = new DeviceGroup() { Name = "Group1", DeviceTypes = new ArrayList() { type1, type2 } };
        DeviceGroup group2 = new DeviceGroup() { Name = "Group2", DeviceTypes = new ArrayList() { type3, type4 } };

        DeviceGroups = new ArrayList() { group1, group2 };

        InitializeComponent();
    }
}

public class DeviceGroup
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public ArrayList DeviceTypes { get; set; }
}

public class DeviceType
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public ArrayList DeviceInstances { get; set; }
}

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

, , ObservableCollection ArrayList, . XAML :

<UserControl x:Class="TestWpfApplication.ThreeLevelTreeView"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:TestWpfApplication"
DataContext="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}">
<TreeView ItemsSource="{Binding DeviceGroups}">
    <TreeView.ItemTemplate>
        <HierarchicalDataTemplate ItemsSource="{Binding DeviceTypes}">
            <HierarchicalDataTemplate.ItemTemplate>
                <HierarchicalDataTemplate ItemsSource="{Binding DeviceInstances}">
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}"/>
                </HierarchicalDataTemplate>
            </HierarchicalDataTemplate.ItemTemplate>
            <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}"/>
        </HierarchicalDataTemplate>
    </TreeView.ItemTemplate>
</TreeView>

:

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