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XAML SampleData Binding to Values of a List of Strings

OK, so I've searched and searched and searched, and I can't find an answer to this specific angle of my question. I know how to bind to a List, and how to make it auto-updating by making it an ObservableCollection instead of a List. However, with just a list of Strings, how the heck to I bind to the value of each List element?
<DataTemplate x:Key="PageTiles">
<Grid Background="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}"
Margin="6,0,6,12">
<StackPanel VerticalAlignment="Bottom">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}"
Margin="6,0,0,6" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
Here's the LongListSelector that pulls from the list:
<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="60">
<phone:LongListSelector Margin="0,0,-12,0"
ItemsSource="{Binding PageTitles}"
LayoutMode="Grid"
GridCellSize="150,150"
ItemTemplate="{StaticResource PageTiles}"
SelectionChanged="LongListSelector_SelectionChanged">
</phone:LongListSelector>
</Grid>
Now, I've used a similar layout before to do tiles based off a List of classes that have string properties, but never with a List of strings, and I can't find anything to guide me in the right direction.

So it turns out #har07 was right. The Text="{Binding}" I'd put in the text value was valid, my cell size was just too large for it to show in the 60 high grid that I'd made. Reduced the height of it to less than the stack panel's height and bam, there it was. I didn't even do that on purpose, that's just how I'd left it while I didn't know what to put in there, and because I hadn't recompiled to get the associations fixed, it wasn't finding anything to put in as elements.
So, to recap, to get the values of a List directly instead of something that's part of that value, a simple "{Binding}" does the trick. Lesson learned: double check your size values before running for help XD.

silverlight toolkit listpicker wp7 missing icons

I'm having a problem with the listpicker (SelectionMode="Multiple"!!!). When i go to fullmode it doesnt show "done", "cancel" icons like if the images were not in my project.
On full screen mode i only have this xaml code
<DataTemplate x:Key="listPickerFullModeItemTemplate">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}" FontSize="30" Height="40" FontFamily="Segoe WP"/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
<toolkit:ListPicker Header="Floral" SelectionMode="Multiple" FullModeHeader="Floral" CacheMode="BitmapCache" x:Name="floralListPicker" Margin="0,0,12,0" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource listPickerItemTemplate}" FullModeItemTemplate="{StaticResource listPickerFullModeItemTemplate}"/>
Code is ok, everything works fine but the icons doesn't show, actually it shows as the default app bar missing icon image. I copied the images from toolkit sample but no go.
anyone know whats wrong?
anyway to force icons on template?
thanks.

Do you need to set the Build Action of the icons to "Content" in their properties window?

I found out the solution by exploring the sample solution of the toolkit.
If you don't use a special page for the fullmode selection, you need to include the following images to your project:
Create one subfolder named Toolkit.Content (not ToolKit/Content).
Then, include the files named as this : ApplicationBar.Cancel.png and ApplicationBar.Check.png.
Mark them to be generated as content.
That's all! Your icons should now been displayed.
Hope this helps you !

AutoCompleteBox in silverlight toolkit for windows phone wrong display

I'm having a problem with the autocompletebox from the toolkit for windows phone. I bind it to some data, then when i press it and start typing, it discovers some items but they are displayed wrong (the list is shown separated from the box, and also if i click on any item, nothing happens. If i click where the item would be supposed to be (for example, right on the top of the box), then it gets selected. It looks like a rendering problem (bug?)) but perhaps i'm doing something wrong. Here's the code for the box :
<DataTemplate x:Key="DataTemplate1">
<ContentControl Content="{Binding Name}" Margin="8,7"/>
</DataTemplate>
<toolkit:AutoCompleteBox ItemsSource="{Binding}" x:Name="txtSelectValues" MinWidth="250" Margin="0,0,0,0" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource DataTemplate1}" VerticalAlignment="Top" />

Found it. It's a bug with the AutoCompleteBox. When inside a scrollviewer control, the dropdown gets messed up and displayed in an incorrect position

Its not just that is also to do with being placed inside of a Pivot/Panaroma as well as the scrollviewer, the silverlight gurus have stated they haven't a timeline for the fix for the Pivot control, and there is a nasty hack
http://silverlight.codeplex.com/workitem/7574

I think the answer might just be that you shouldn't be using a ContentControl directly used like this. Try using something like a TextBlock instead - e.g.:
<DataTemplate x:Key="DataTemplate1">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}" Margin="8,7"/>
</DataTemplate>
If that's not the answer, then try pulling back to a simple example - especially removing all the Margin's, Width's, Alignment's, etc - then put them back in one-by-one to work out and understand what is causing the effect you are seeing.

WPF ListBox Databinding & Events

My problem is rather simple.
I have a ListBox, containing Thumnails (Image)
<ListBox Name="ListBox_Thumbnails" ItemsSource="{Binding}" DataContext="{Binding Source= {StaticResource ThumbnailListSource}}" Width="120" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="-1,26,0,54">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel>
<Image Source="{Binding Path=absolutePath}" MouseLeftButtonDown=<!--?????-->/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
I wanted to show an image, but as a new StackOverFlow user, I can't. You can find the image here:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/61aa983cad.jpg
(For those who don't trust me, I explain here the content of the image:
On the left, there is a list of thumbnails (displayed vertically) and on the right there is a bigger image, corresponding per default to a large image of the first thumbnail).
When I click on a thumbnail (on the left), the large image on the right should be updated by the one that I clicked on.
As I am new with WPF, my approach is perhaps totally wrong with the ListBox.
Please, WPF Gurus, show me the light!

I guess, you can use events on ListBox, smth like SelectionChanged... but that's totally not the TRUE WPF-Jedi way -- remember, code-behind is the dark side! =)
Think data binding, that's the Force. Bind your large Image element's source to the SelectedItem property of the ListBox. It should look like
<Image Source="{Binding SelectedItem.absolutePath, ElementName=ListBox_Thumbnails}">
P.S. Every WPF-databinding-jedi should have this cheat sheet nearby.
P.P.S. Actually, as you're using ItemTemplate this might not work, you'll have your StackPanel as the selected item... in this case you can try the SelectedValuePath trick, set it to "absolutePath" and bind the large image to the SelectedValue property.
So your ListBox opening tag becomes:
<ListBox Name="ListBox_Thumbnails" ItemsSource="{Binding}" DataContext="{Binding Source= {StaticResource ThumbnailListSource}}" Width="120" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="-1,26,0,54" SelectedValuePath="absolutePath">
And your large image tag becomes:
<Image Source="{Binding SelectedValue, ElementName=ListBox_Thumbnails}">

WPF Image Gallery

I'm going to be driving a touch-screen application (not a web app) that needs to present groups of images to users. The desire is to present a 3x3 grid of images with a page forward/backward capability. They can select a few and I'll present just those images.
I don't see that ListView does quite what I want (although WPF is big enough that I might well have missed something obvious!). I could set up a Grid and stuff images in the grid positions. But I was hoping for something nicer, more automated, less brute-force. Any thoughts or pointers?

I know that this is a pretty old question, but I'm answering because this page is in the first page on Google and this link could be useful for someone.
WPF Photo Viewer Demo
Screenshot:

You might want to use an ItemsControl/ListBox and then set a UniformGrid panel for a 3x3 display as its ItemsPanel to achieve a proper WPF bindable solution.
<ListBox ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled">
<ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<UniformGrid Rows="3" Columns="3"/>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<Image Source="Images\img1.jpg" Width="100"/>
<Image Source="Images\img2.jpg" Width="50"/>
<Image Source="Images\img3.jpg" Width="200"/>
<Image Source="Images\img4.jpg" Width="75"/>
<Image Source="Images\img5.jpg" Width="125"/>
<Image Source="Images\img6.jpg" Width="100"/>
<Image Source="Images\img7.jpg" Width="50"/>
<Image Source="Images\img8.jpg" Width="50"/>
<Image Source="Images\img9.jpg" Width="50"/>
</ListBox>
You need to set your collection of Images as ItemsSource binding if you are looking for a dynamic solution here. But the question is too broad to give an exact answer.

You can use simple ListBox control and customize its ItemsPanel template and add WrapPanel in it. WrapPanel puts items in a Horizontal Tiling layout, where you can set its max width to incorporate 3 items in one row and it will create more rows for 3 items till last one fills.