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    WPF Control Arrays?

    I've got a block of controls I am using multiple times on different tabs. I created a user control in XAML so that I could re-use this block. If I make a aesthetics change to it then it propagates through with ease. Now, I need to initialize the controls in the user control. That's easy enough. However, instead of doing this:

    Code:
                SegmentControl1.ComboBoxMode.ItemsSource = fc.CameraSettings.Modes;
                SegmentControl1.ComboBoxMode.DisplayMemberPath = "Value";
                SegmentControl1.ComboBoxMode.SelectedValuePath = "Key";
                //1 to 10 ...
                SegmentControl10.ComboBoxMode.ItemsSource = fc.CameraSettings.Modes;
                SegmentControl10.ComboBoxMode.DisplayMemberPath = "Value";
                SegmentControl10.ComboBoxMode.SelectedValuePath = "Key";
    I would like to do something similar to this:

    Code:
                //Loop i from 1 to 10
                SegmentControl[i].ComboBoxMode.ItemsSource = fc.CameraSettings.Modes;
                SegmentControl[i].ComboBoxMode.DisplayMemberPath = "Value";
                SegmentControl[i].ComboBoxMode.SelectedValuePath = "Key";
    This would be much more efficient and result in code easier to read.

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    Re: WPF Control Arrays?

    I would try to get away from initializing controls as much as possible in code behind and use data binding instead.

    In addition rather than using a fixed number of controls in an array, I would use a custom list and bind the array to the list (in other words, each SegmentControl would be a list item).

    The advantage of this approach is that you would end up with very little initialization code in the code behind.

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