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C# UWP ToggleSwitch in ListView

Suppose you have the ListView below :
<ListView x:Name="ListViewActiveAssets" Margin="10,10,10,10" CanReorderItems="True" AllowDrop="True" CanDragItems="True" SelectionMode="Extended" DragItemsStarting="ListViewActiveAssets_DragItemsStarting" DragItemsCompleted="ListViewActiveAssets_DragItemsCompleted">
<ListView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate x:DataType="local:Asset">
<Grid VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="36" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="36" />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition Width="108" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="" FontFamily="Segoe MDL2 Assets" Grid.Column="0" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="{x:Bind AssetType}" FontFamily="Segoe MDL2 Assets" Grid.Column="1" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="{x:Bind Name}" Grid.Column="2" FontSize="18" VerticalAlignment="Center" Padding="0,0,5,0"/>
<TextBlock Text="{x:Bind StartDate}" Grid.Column="3" FontSize="16" VerticalAlignment="Center" Padding="0,0,5,0"/>
<TextBlock Text="{x:Bind EndDate}" Grid.Column="4" FontSize="16" VerticalAlignment="Center" Padding="0,0,5,0"/>
<ToggleSwitch Grid.Column="8" x:Name="ToggleSwitchEnable" IsOn="{x:Bind IsEnabledSwitch}" OnContent="On" OffContent="Off" Padding="5,0" Toggled="ToggleSwitchEnable_Toggled"/>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</ListView.ItemTemplate>
This ListBox can be reordered and this work fine. I simply would like to know why the Toggled event is fired when I reorder an item in ListView ?
Indeed, my Toggled event contains code that refresh the ListView, so when I'am dragging item, the ListView refreshes and the drag&drop fail.
If someone have a suggestion... Thanks in advance!

Try adding a local bool in your class and set it to false in your constructor:
private bool toggling;
public myPage()
{
toggling = false;
}
Then, in your OnToggled method, start by setting toggling to true and then set it back to false at the end of the method.
void ToggleSwitchEnable_Toggled(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
toggling = true;
// Your code
toggling = false;
}
You can then set your refresh method to only execute when toggling is false:
void refresh()
{
if(toggling)
return;
//Your code
}
This will cause the refresh command to be skipped whenever you toggle the switch

Formatting of text in a textblock in windows phone 7

I am have a text which is has bold, underline and italic html characters. For example
<b> hello<b> how are <i>you</i>. I am <u>fine</u>
I have to show it in formatted form in a textblock on WP7. I have a listbox like this
<ListBox x:Name="LBayaDetail" Loaded="LBayaDetail_Loaded" Margin="6,0,0,0" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
<Style TargetType="ListBoxItem">
<Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch" />
</Style>
</ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid x:Name="ayaContent" Margin="0,6,0,0" Hold="ayaContent_Hold" Tap="ayaContent_Tap" Loaded="ayaContent_Loaded" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="6"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="80" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="6" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Background="#FFC5AC88" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<TextBlock x:Name="ayaIndex" Text="{Binding aya}" FontSize="36" Margin="0" FontWeight="Bold" HorizontalAlignment="Center" />
<StackPanel VerticalAlignment="Bottom" HorizontalAlignment="Center">
<Image Source="{Binding BookmarkImage}" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Width="48" Height="48" Margin="0,0,0,12" />
<Image Source="{Binding NoteImage}" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Width="48" Height="48" Margin="0,0,0,12" />
<Image Source="{Binding TagImage}" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Width="48" Height="48" Margin="0,0,0,12" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
<Grid Grid.Row="1" Background="#FFC5AC88" x:Name="Media" Tap="Media_Tap" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<Image Source="/Images/Media-Play(1).png" Width="30" Height="30" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Margin="12,0,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
</Grid>
<!--ini pak dimana tempat untuk ayat dan translasi-->
<Grid Grid.Column="2" Background="#FFAC9574" Margin="6,0,0,0" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<TextBlock x:Name="aya" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="{Binding text}" HorizontalAlignment="Right" FontFamily="/Fonts/me_quran2.ttf#me_quran2" FontSize="{Binding FontSizeAya}" Foreground="Black" Margin="24,0,12,-12" TextAlignment="Right" Visibility="{Binding visibility1}" />
</Grid>
<Grid Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="1" Margin="6,0,0,0" Background="#FFAC9574" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock Visibility="{Binding visibility2}" x:Name="translation" Text="{Binding translation}" TextWrapping="Wrap" HorizontalAlignment="Right" FontFamily="/Fonts/ARIALUNI.TTF#Arial Unicode MS" FontSize="{Binding FontSizeTranslation}" Foreground="#FF5D2A07" Margin="12,6,6,0" />
<TextBlock Visibility="{Binding visibility3}" x:Name="translation2" Text="{Binding translation2}" TextWrapping="Wrap" HorizontalAlignment="Right" FontFamily="/Fonts/ARIALUNI.TTF#Arial Unicode MS" FontSize="{Binding FontSizeTranslation}" Foreground="DarkGreen" Margin="12,20,6,0" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
<!-- -->
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
I fetch from database like
App.Listxyz = (Application.Current as App).db.SelectList<Aya>(strSelect);
And assign it to Listbox like this
LBayaDetail.ItemsSource = App.ListAyaBySurah;
And shows the text as it is and do not format it which is obvious. I searched for it and I was able to format individual textblock by using "RUN" but I am unable to do it in listbox.
I also tried to use HTMLTextBlock but it also doesn't format the text and shows it like this
Hi
How
Are
You
Any help will be much appreciated that how do I format a textblock with different text decorations.
Thanks

You should place a grid and a stackpanel inside the listbox. Something like the following
<Grid>
<StackPanel Grid.Column="1">
<TextBlock Padding="0,5,0,2" TextWrapping="Wrap">
<Run Text="{Binding test}" FontWeight="Bold" /> <Run Text="{Binding test2}" />
<LineBreak/>
<Run Text="{Binding test3}" />
</TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>

One way to do that is:
public class FormattedText
{
public string Text { get; set; }
public bool IsBold { get; set; }
public bool IsItalic { get; set; }
public bool IsUnderlined { get; set; }
}
Have a method that converts the HTML you stored in your db to a list of the class you have above
example:
From this:
<b> hello<b> how are <i>you</i>. I am <u>fine</u>
to this:
First element:
Text = "hello"
IsBold = true
skip what not needed since bool default value is false
Second element
Text =" how are"
skip what not needed since bool default value is false
Third item
Text ="you"
IsItalic=true;
skip what not needed since bool default value is false
and so on....
and then have another method that from that list creates a list of Runs to be added to your TextBlock or
maybe create a custom TextBlock witch take the List<FormattedText> from DataContext and process it by adding the Run elements to self

AvalonDock 2.2 - Full width TitleTemplate (fill parent container)

Hy everyone!
I created a title template in AvalonDock 2.2 (WPF Toolkit). The problem is that the context menu of the LayoutAnchorable is only triggered when I right-click on the part of the title that contains something (and not the entire width of the anchorable).
Here is the relevant code segment I'm using now:
<ad:DockingManager x:Class="Pdn.Gui.Docking.Control.DockingSystem" ...
AnchorablesSource="{Binding Path=Panels}">
<ad:DockingManager.Resources>
<DataTemplate x:Key="DockingWindowTitleDataTemplate" DataType="{x:Type ad:LayoutContent}">
<StackPanel ToolTip="{Binding Path=Content.ToolTip}" Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<Image MaxHeight="16" MaxWidth="16" VerticalAlignment="Center"
Source="{Binding Path=Content.IconSource, Converter={StaticResource IconToImageSourceConverter}}" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Content.Name}" Margin="5,0,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="*" Visibility="{Binding Path=Content.DirtySignVisibility}" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
<DataTemplate x:Key="DockingWindowTitleGridDataTemplate" DataType="{x:Type ad:LayoutContent}">
<Grid ToolTip="{Binding Path=Content.ToolTip}" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Image Grid.Column="0" MaxHeight="16" MaxWidth="16" VerticalAlignment="Center"
Source="{Binding Path=Content.IconSource, Converter={StaticResource IconToImageSourceConverter}}" />
<TextBlock Grid.Column="1" Text="{Binding Path=Content.Name}" Margin="5,0,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="2" Text="*" Visibility="{Binding Path=Content.DirtySignVisibility}" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
<DataTemplate x:Key="DefaultPanelTitle">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Content.Name}" TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis" />
</DataTemplate>
...
</ad:DockingManager.Resources>
<ad:DockingManager.AnchorableTitleTemplate>
<StaticResource ResourceKey="DockingWindowTitleDataTemplate" />
</ad:DockingManager.AnchorableTitleTemplate>
...
</ad:DockingManager>
When I use the DefaultPanelTitle template (which is the default template of the theme) everything is fine, the context menu is triggered on the full width of the title part.
However when I use the other two templates (Image-Name-IsDirty elements), the context menu is triggered only on the beginning of the title area (and not right to the asterix).
I'm guessing I should tell the container to fill its parent container, but I can't figure out how. I used StackPanel, Grid, DockPanel (LastChildFill = "True") with HorizontalAlignment set to Stretch. What kind of container should I use?
What am I missing?
P.S.: I can only respond to your answers for another 12 hours, then I'm gone for a while (week). But I'm not abandoning this question until it's answered :) Thanks for your patience.

Well, the solution was quite simple. I wrapped the StackPanel in a Label. Now the context menu can be triggered on every pixel in the title part. The template now looks like this:
<ad:DockingManager x:Class="Pdn.Gui.Docking.Control.DockingSystem" ...
AnchorablesSource="{Binding Path=Panels}">
<ad:DockingManager.Resources>
<DataTemplate x:Key="DockingWindowTitleDataTemplate" DataType="{x:Type ad:LayoutContent}">
<Label>
<StackPanel ToolTip="{Binding Path=Content.ToolTip}" Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<Image MaxHeight="16" MaxWidth="16" VerticalAlignment="Center"
Source="{Binding Path=Content.IconSource, Converter={StaticResource IconToImageSourceConverter}}" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Content.Name}" Margin="5,0,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
<TextBlock Text="*" Visibility="{Binding Path=Content.DirtySignVisibility}" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
</StackPanel>
</Label>
</DataTemplate>
...
</ad:DockingManager.Resources>
<ad:DockingManager.AnchorableTitleTemplate>
<StaticResource ResourceKey="DockingWindowTitleDataTemplate" />
</ad:DockingManager.AnchorableTitleTemplate>
...
</ad:DockingManager>
I love simple solutions.

How to change GridView.ItemTemplate while app is running?

In my app I have page with GridView and ComboBox. I want to change GridView.ItemTemplate property according to selected item in ComboBox. How should I implement it?
btw, I know about this question, but it is quite old and it does not look like "best practice". (How visibility/invisibility of ui control affects cpu/gpu load?)
My GridView:
<GridView x:Name="gridViewMain" Grid.Row="1" SelectionMode="None" IsItemClickEnabled="True"
ItemsSource="{Binding CurrentList}" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource gridViewMainItemTemplate}"
Loaded="gridViewMain_Loaded" LayoutUpdated="gridViewMain_LayoutUpdated">
<interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
<core:EventTriggerBehavior EventName="ItemClick">
<core:CallMethodAction MethodName="GridViewClick"
TargetObject="{Binding Mode=OneWay}" />
</core:EventTriggerBehavior>
</interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
</GridView>
One of my templates:
<DataTemplate x:Key="gridViewMainItemTemplate">
<Grid x:Name="gridATemplate" Width="185" Height="288">
<Image x:Name="imgATemplate" Source="{Binding image_url}" Stretch="UniformToFill"
HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
<Grid Background="{ThemeResource ListViewItemOverlayBackgroundThemeBrush}" VerticalAlignment="Bottom">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock x:Name="textBlockTitle" Text="{Binding title}"
TextWrapping="Wrap" Style="{StaticResource BodyTextBlockStyle}" Margin="5,0,0,0"
Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Foreground="White" FontWeight="Bold"
MaxHeight="50" />
<TextBlock x:Name="textBlockType" TextWrapping="Wrap" Style="{StaticResource BodyTextBlockStyle}"
Margin="5,0,0,0"
Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1" Foreground="White" Text="{Binding type}" FontWeight="Bold" />
<StackPanel Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock x:Name="textBlockProgressL" TextWrapping="Wrap"
Style="{StaticResource BodyTextBlockStyle}" FontWeight="Bold" Foreground="White"
Text="Progress:" />
<TextBlock x:Name="textBlockProgressV" TextWrapping="Wrap"
Style="{StaticResource BodyTextBlockStyle}" FontWeight="Bold" Foreground="White"
Text="{Binding watched_episodes}" Margin="10,0,0,10" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>

Sure you can do this! In XAML you can do anything. What you cannot do is change the Template on the fly without re-rendering. Remember, this is like telling your printer to use card stock. It will obey. If you change the setting to use notebook paper, it will obey that, too. You will just have to print again since it has already printed on card stock.
There are a few ways for you to re-render a GridView. One way is to navigate away from the page and navigate back. That's not ideal sounding in your scenario. Odds are, in your scenario, you just need to reset the ObservableCollection you are using. Like this:
void Reset<T>(ObservableCollection<T> collection)
{
var original = collection.ToArray();
collection.Clear();
foreach (var item in original)
collection.Add(item);
}
Best of luck!

You'll want to use datatemplateselector
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bryanbolling/archive/2012/12/08/how-to-control-the-datatemplateselector-in-windows-store-apps.aspx
You can create multiple itemtemplates and choose which one to display based on any condition.
You'll have to refresh the gridview whenever the selection changes.

Adding content to PivotItem dynamically

I have a page with a Pivot. It´s based on the Visual Studio Template.
<!--Pivot Control-->
<phone:Pivot SelectionChanged="evt_pivot_SelectionChanged">
<phone:Pivot.Title>
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Center">
<!-- <TextBlock Text="MyApp" /> -->
<Image Stretch="None" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0" MinWidth="50" MaxHeight="50" Source="/mAppData/logo.png"/>
</StackPanel>
</phone:Pivot.Title>
<!--Pivot item one-->
<phone:PivotItem Header="Favoriten">
<!--Double line list with text wrapping-->
<phone:LongListSelector Margin="13,0,0,0" ItemsSource="{Binding Items}">
<phone:LongListSelector.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Margin="0,0,0,25">
<Grid VerticalAlignment="Top">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="100" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Text="FELIX ClubRestaurant (Berlin)" TextWrapping="NoWrap" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextLargeStyle}" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="0,0,0,22" />
<Image Grid.Column="0" Width="110" Height="20" Source="/mAppData/stars-3.png" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Margin="0"/>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="1" Text="10 min." TextWrapping="NoWrap" Margin="0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextSubtleStyle}" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom"/>
</Grid>
<Grid VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="0,10,0,0">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Image Grid.Column="0" Width="100" Height="100" Source="http://img.myserver.net/news-teaser//p189j19861b36c5d1pp012i21grgd.gif"/>
<Image Grid.Column="1" Width="100" Height="100" Source="http://img.myserver.net/news-teaser//p187qrndfcj0la0f12clfkv10ec7.gif"/>
<Image Grid.Column="2" Width="100" Height="100" Source="http://img.myserver.net/news-teaser/005e5d03f058fa8f7bd95f6410dfc6d6.gif"/>
<Image Grid.Column="3" Width="100" Height="100" Source="http://img.myserver.net/news-teaser/3c05cbf76fba7ada5182b4426e55d96b.gif"/>
</Grid>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</phone:LongListSelector.ItemTemplate>
</phone:LongListSelector>
</phone:PivotItem>
<!--Pivot item two-->
<phone:PivotItem Header="Empfohlen">
</phone:PivotItem>
</phone:Pivot>
I added in CodeBehind the handling for the event SelectionChanged. That works fine. So I can capture by code, when user comes to the second PivotItem.
private async void evt_pivot_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
int mPivotIndex = Convert.ToInt16(((Pivot)sender).SelectedIndex.ToString());
if (mPivotIndex == 1)
{
// HERE I WANT TO INSERT THE SOLUTION
}
}
Now comes my problem: When user navigates to seconds item, I want to:
request some data from an WebService (this in not the problem)
transform the data (this is not the problem) and
populate the data in a LongListSelector (THIS IS MY PROBLEM PART 1)
In case that an error occures, I want not to display the LongListSelector but a TextBox showing a message (THIS IS MY PROBLEM PART 2)
How can I get my 2 problems get working?

You will need to bind the text/content of your controls in the itemtemplate to the data collection fieldname
Text="{Binding Fieldname}"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj207023(v=vs.105).aspx
In your error handling, set the visibility of the Longlistselector to Collapsed. Then you can show another control which displays the textbox
<StackPanel>
<LongListSelector x:Name=”MyListSelector”>
..stuff
</LongListSelector>
<TextBlock x:Name=”MyError” Visibility=”Collapsed”> </TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
Catch (Exception Ex)
{
MyListSelector.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed
MyError.Visibility = Visibility.Visible
MyError.Text = Ex.Message;
}

you can hide the Longlist selector and add the Textbox with the Error message directly from the code behind. see the code below.
try
{
//make the service call and do your stuff
}
catch(exception ex)
{
MyListSelector.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed;
var errorTextBox = new TextBox();
errorTextBox.Text = "some Error has occured";
//add all the properties you want to add for textbox such as color,height,fontsiz ect..
//Name your pivotitem control, say pivotitem1
pivotitem1.Content = errorTextBox;
}
hope this helps.
Note: uncompiled code. pardon compilation errors