WPF combobox value and display text

Question

I\'m used to doing things like

State.Items.Add(new ListItem { Text = \"SomeState\", Value = NumericIDofState });

Where State is a Listbox in A

Answer 1

If you only want to expose a simple property in the viewmodel and handle the text for the choices in the view you can do a simple solution like this:

Example with a bool property:

Type-verbose alternatives (original examples)

Below are more verbose alternatives where the types are explicitly declared. Depending on your preferred style (or maybe some types that requires it), maybe it suits you better.

    
        
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Example with a bool property:

    
        
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The sys namespace is declared as this:

xmlns:sys="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"