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How can I hide a listviews Vertrical Scroll bar on UWP?

So I am trying to hide the vertical scroll bar of a ListView in my UWP application programatically in code.
I have tried looking at the MSDN documentation for Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.ListView
But can't see a property. All I can find is the property ShowsScrollingPlaceholders which states:
Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the view shows placeholder
UI for items during scrolling.
But setting:
(Control as Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.ListView).ShowsScrollingPlaceholders = false;
does nothing.
So is it possible to hide the Vertical scroll bar on a listview using UWP?

In Xaml you can do the following:
<ListView ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Hidden"></ListView>
and in code you can do:
Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.ScrollViewer.SetVerticalScrollBarVisibility((Control as Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.ListView), Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.ScrollBarVisibility.Hidden);

You need to access ScrollViewer that's inside your ListView. You can do so by using a helper method
public ScrollViewer GetScrollViewer(DependencyObject o)
{
if (o is ScrollViewer)
{
return o as ScrollViewer;
}
for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(o); i++)
{
var child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(o, i);
var result = GetScrollViewer(child);
if (result == null)
{
continue;
}
else
{
return result;
}
}
return null;
}
Usage:
// Get ListView's ScrollViewer
ScrollViewer listScrollViewer = GetScrollViewer(listView);
// Set VerticalScrollBarVisibility to hidden
listScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility = ScrollBarVisibility.Hidden;

How to get the Vertical Scrollbar and Horizontal Scrollbar in WPF (XAML)

In a WPF desktop application I've got a ListBox that must show the Vertical Scrollbar and Horizontal Scrollbar.
The two scrollbars could be visible or not, basing on the screen resolution.
In the code I want to know if are both visible or only one, to trigger an autoscroll.
I'm using the VisualTreeHelper class to get the list of children of the dependency object (the ListBox itself) and extract all the ScrollViewers.
Here the method:
private List<DependencyObject> FindChildren(DependencyObject o, Type childType)
{
List<DependencyObject> foundChildren = new List<DependencyObject>();
if (o != null)
{
int childrenCount = VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(o);
for (int i = 0; i < childrenCount; i++)
{
var child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(o, i);
if (child.GetType() != childType)
{
foundChildren.AddRange(FindChildren(child, childType));
}
else
{
foundChildren.Add(child);
}
}
}
return foundChildren;
}
When both the ScrollBars are visible on the UI, it always return the Horizontal One, and i cannot get the Vertical one.
Any help and/or suggestion is Appreciated.

WPF Listbox Virtualization creates DisconnectedItems

I'm attempting to create a Graph control using a WPF ListBox. I created my own Canvas which derives from a VirtualizingPanel and I handle the realization and virtualization of items myself.
The listbox' item panel is then set to be my custom virtualized canvas.
The problem I am encountering occurs in the following scenario:
ListBox Item A is created first.
ListBox Item B is created to the right of Item A on the canvas.
ListBox Item A is virtualized first (by panning it out of view).
ListBox Item B is virtualized second (again by panning it out of view).
Bring ListBox Item A and B in view (i.e: realize them)
Using Snoop, I detect that the ListBox has now 3 items, one of them being a "DisconnectedItem" located directly underneath ListBox Item B.
What causes the creation of this "DisconnectedItem" ? If I were to virtualize B first, followed by A, this item would not be created. My theory is that virtualizing items that precedes other items in a ListBox causes children to be disconnected.
The problem is even more apparent using a graph with hundreds of nodes, as I end up with hundreds of disconnected items as I pan around.
Here is a portion of the code for the canvas:
/// <summary>
/// Arranges and virtualizes child element positionned explicitly.
/// </summary>
public class VirtualizingCanvas : VirtualizingPanel
{
(...)
protected override Size MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
{
ItemsControl itemsOwner = ItemsControl.GetItemsOwner(this);
// For some reason you have to "touch" the children collection in
// order for the ItemContainerGenerator to initialize properly.
var necessaryChidrenTouch = Children;
IItemContainerGenerator generator = ItemContainerGenerator;
IDisposable generationAction = null;
int index = 0;
Rect visibilityRect = new Rect(
-HorizontalOffset / ZoomFactor,
-VerticalOffset / ZoomFactor,
ActualWidth / ZoomFactor,
ActualHeight / ZoomFactor);
// Loop thru the list of items and generate their container
// if they are included in the current visible view.
foreach (object item in itemsOwner.Items)
{
var virtualizedItem = item as IVirtualizingCanvasItem;
if (virtualizedItem == null ||
visibilityRect.IntersectsWith(GetBounds(virtualizedItem)))
{
if (generationAction == null)
{
GeneratorPosition startPosition =
generator.GeneratorPositionFromIndex(index);
generationAction = generator.StartAt(startPosition,
GeneratorDirection.Forward, true);
}
GenerateItem(index);
}
else
{
GeneratorPosition itemPosition =
generator.GeneratorPositionFromIndex(index);
if (itemPosition.Index != -1 && itemPosition.Offset == 0)
{
RemoveInternalChildRange(index, 1);
generator.Remove(itemPosition, 1);
}
// The generator needs to be "reseted" when we skip some items
// in the sequence...
if (generationAction != null)
{
generationAction.Dispose();
generationAction = null;
}
}
++index;
}
if (generationAction != null)
{
generationAction.Dispose();
}
return default(Size);
}
(...)
private void GenerateItem(int index)
{
bool newlyRealized;
var element =
ItemContainerGenerator.GenerateNext(out newlyRealized) as UIElement;
if (newlyRealized)
{
if (index >= InternalChildren.Count)
{
AddInternalChild(element);
}
else
{
InsertInternalChild(index, element);
}
ItemContainerGenerator.PrepareItemContainer(element);
element.RenderTransform = _scaleTransform;
}
element.Measure(new Size(double.PositiveInfinity,
double.PositiveInfinity));
}

I'm 6 years late, but the problem is still not fixed in WPF. Here is the solution (workaround).
Make a self-binding to the DataContext, eg.:
<Image DataContext="{Binding}" />
This worked for me, even for a very complex xaml.

It's used whenever a container is removed from the visual tree, either because the corresponding item was deleted, or the collection was refreshed, or the container was scrolled off the screen and re-virtualized.
This is a known bug in WPF 4
See this link for known bug, it also has a workaround you may be able to apply.
"You can make your solution a little more robust by saving a reference
to the sentinel object {DisconnectedItem} the first time you see it,
then comparing against the saved value after that.
We should have made a public way to test for {DisconnectedItem}, but
it slipped through the cracks. We'll fix that in a future release, but
for now you can count on the fact that there's a unique
{DisconnectedItem} object."

Get ListView Visible items

I have a ListView which might contains a lot of items, so it is virtualized and recycling items. It does not use sort. I need to refresh some value display, but when there are too many items, it is too slow to update everything, so I would like to refresh only the visible items.
How could I get a list of all currently displayed items ? I tried to look into the ListView or in the ScrollViewer, but I still have no idea how to achieve this. The solution must NOT go through all items to test if they can be seen, because this would be too slow.
I'm not sure code or xaml would be useful, it is just a Virtualized/Recycling ListView with its ItemSource bound to an Array.
Edit :
Answer :
thanks to akjoshi, I found the way :
get the ScrollViewer of the ListView
(with a FindDescendant method, that you can do yourself with the VisualTreeHelper ).
read its ScrollViewer.VerticalOffset : it is the number of the first item shown
read its ScrollViewer.ViewportHeight : it is the count of items shown.
Rq : CanContentScroll must be true.

Have a look at this question on MSDN showing a technique to find out the visible ListView items -
How to find the rows (ListViewItem(s)) in a ListView that are actually visible?
Here's the relevant code from that post -
listView.ItemsSource = from i in Enumerable.Range(0, 100) select "Item" + i.ToString();
listView.Loaded += (sender, e) =>
{
ScrollViewer scrollViewer = listView.GetVisualChild<ScrollViewer>(); //Extension method
if (scrollViewer != null)
{
ScrollBar scrollBar = scrollViewer.Template.FindName("PART_VerticalScrollBar", scrollViewer) as ScrollBar;
if (scrollBar != null)
{
scrollBar.ValueChanged += delegate
{
//VerticalOffset and ViweportHeight is actually what you want if UI virtualization is turned on.
Console.WriteLine("Visible Item Start Index:{0}", scrollViewer.VerticalOffset);
Console.WriteLine("Visible Item Count:{0}", scrollViewer.ViewportHeight);
};
}
}
};
Another thing you should do is to use ObservableCollection as your ItemSource instead of an Array; that will definitely improve the performance.
Update:
Ya that might be true(array vs. ObservableCollection) but I would like to see some statistics related to this;
The real benefit of ObservableCollection is if you have a requirement to add/remove items from your ListView at run-time, in case of an Array you will have to reassign the ItemSource of ListView and the ListView first throws away its previous items and regenerates its entire list.

After trying to figure out something similar, I thought I would share my result here (as it seems easier than the other responses):
Simple visibility test I got from here.
private static bool IsUserVisible(FrameworkElement element, FrameworkElement container)
{
if (!element.IsVisible)
return false;
Rect bounds =
element.TransformToAncestor(container).TransformBounds(new Rect(0.0, 0.0, element.ActualWidth, element.ActualHeight));
var rect = new Rect(0.0, 0.0, container.ActualWidth, container.ActualHeight);
return rect.Contains(bounds.TopLeft) || rect.Contains(bounds.BottomRight);
}
Afterwards you can loop through the listboxitems and use that test to determine which are visible. Since the listboxitems are always ordered the same the first visible one in this list would be the first visible one to the user.
private List<object> GetVisibleItemsFromListbox(ListBox listBox, FrameworkElement parentToTestVisibility)
{
var items = new List<object>();
foreach (var item in PhotosListBox.Items)
{
if (IsUserVisible((ListBoxItem)listBox.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(item), parentToTestVisibility))
{
items.Add(item);
}
else if (items.Any())
{
break;
}
}
return items;
}

How I see things :
on one side, you have your data. They must be up to date, because this is where your information is in memory. Iterating on your data list should be pretty fast, and most of all, can be done on another thread, in background
on the other side, you have the display. Your ListView already make the trick of refreshing only the datas displayed, since it's virtualizing ! You need no more tricks, it's already in place !
On last work, using a binding on an ObservableCollection is a good advice. If you intend to modify the ObservableCollection from an another thread, I would recommend this : http://blog.quantumbitdesigns.com/2008/07/22/wpf-cross-thread-collection-binding-part-1/

I spend a lot of time finding a better solution for this,
In my situation i have a scrollviewer, filled with items with custom heigths that can be set visible/invisible, i came up with this. It does the same as above solutions but with a fraction of the CPU. I hope it helps some one.
The first items of the listview / scrollpanel is TopVisibleItem
public int TopVisibleItem { get; private set; }
private double CurrentDistance;
private void TouchScroller_ScrollChanged(object sender, ScrollChangedEventArgs e)
{
if (myItemControl.Items.Count > 0)
{
MoveDirection direction = (MoveDirection)Math.Sign(e.VerticalChange);
if (direction == MoveDirection.Positive)
while (CurrentDistance < e.VerticalOffset && TopVisibleItem < myItemControl.Items.Count)
{
CurrentDistance += ((FrameworkElement)myItemControl.Items[TopVisibleItem]).ActualHeight;
TopVisibleItem += 1;
}
else
while (CurrentDistance >= e.VerticalOffset && TopVisibleItem > 0)
{
CurrentDistance -= ((FrameworkElement)myItemControl.Items[TopVisibleItem]).ActualHeight;
TopVisibleItem -= 1;
}
}
}
public enum MoveDirection
{
Negative = -1,
Positive = 1,
}

If you have a virtualization enabled ListView, Then you can get all Current Visible items as below:
Get VirtualizingStackPanel
Get all ListViewItems in VirtualizingStackPanel
The code is shown below.
VirtualizingStackPanel virtualizingStackPanel = FindVisualChild<VirtualizingStackPanel>(requiredListView);
List<ListViewItem> items = GetVisualChildren<ListViewItem>(virtualizingStackPanel);
The Functions are shown below.
private childItem FindVisualChild<childItem>(DependencyObject obj) where childItem : DependencyObject
{
for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(obj); i++)
{
DependencyObject child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(obj, i);
if (child != null && child is childItem)
return (childItem)child;
else
{
childItem childOfChild = FindVisualChild<childItem>(child);
if (childOfChild != null)
return childOfChild;
}
}
return null;
}
private List<childItem> GetVisualChildren<childItem>(DependencyObject obj) where childItem : DependencyObject
{
List<childItem> childList = new List<childItem>();
for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(obj); i++)
{
DependencyObject child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(obj, i);
if (child != null && child is childItem)
childList.Add(child as childItem);
}
if (childList.Count > 0)
return childList;
return null;
}
This will return you list of current ListViewItem loaded for displaying.
Hope it helps :).

How to set an Item of a ListBox to the top?

I have bookmarks list, when I tap on a bookmark, another page is loaded with a listA consists of several items.
Now suppose, I tap on a bookmark, which points to the item index 100 of the listA... the other listA opens, I manage to set the SelectedIndex of the listA to 100, which is somewhere down the list is not visible.
The problem is that, the SelectedIndex is set to 100, but the list still shows the top most item, on the top.
How can I set the item number 100 on the top, when it loads the contents?

Works perfectly with ScrollViewer.ScrollToVerticalOffset Method
Step I. Call Loaded event of the listA
<ListBox Name="ListA" Loaded="HookScrollViewer">
Step II. Define the "HookScrollViewer" method
private void HookScrollViewer(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
var element = (FrameworkElement)sender;
var scrollViewer = FindChildOfType<ScrollViewer>(element);
if (scrollViewer == null)
return;
scrollViewer.ScrollToVerticalOffset(lstA.SelectedIndex);
}
Step III. Define the "FindChildOfType" method
public static T FindChildOfType<T>(DependencyObject root) where T : class
{
var queue = new Queue<DependencyObject>();
queue.Enqueue(root);
while (queue.Count > 0)
{
var current = queue.Dequeue();
for (int i = VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(current) - 1; 0 <= i; i--)
{
var child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(current, i);
var typedChild = child as T;
if (typedChild != null)
{
return typedChild;
}
queue.Enqueue(child);
}
}
return null;
}
And it works with "ListA" (Replace ListA by the name of your ListBox)
Ref: ListBox offset in WP7

ListBox is really pain in the ass (especially with complex datatemplates and virtualizing). You should use this workaround:
listbox.SelectedIndex = 1000; //I mean index of the last item
listbox.UpdateLayout();
listbox.SelectedIndex = 100;
listbox.UpdateLayout();
Hope this helps

Try this:
listBox2.TopIndex = listBox2.SelectedIndex;

I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly. But If you just want to set an item on top of the listbox items then I would do..
listbox.Items.Insert(0, "something);
or
Use linq to order them
listbox.Items.OrderBy("something");