Forcing WPF to create the items in an ItemsControl

Question

I want to verify that the items in my ListBox are displayed correctly in the UI. I figured one way to do this is to go through all of the children of the

Answer 1

The Solution from Andy is a very good idea, but is incomplete. For example, the first 5 containers are created and in the panel. The list hast 300 > items. I request the last container, with this logic, ADD. Then I request the last index - 1 container, with this logis ADD! That's the problem. The order of the Children inside the panel is not valid.

A Solution for this:

    private FrameworkElement GetContainerForIndex(int index)
    {
        if (ItemsControl == null)
        {
            return null;
        }

        var container = ItemsControl.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromIndex(index -1);
        if (container != null && container != DependencyProperty.UnsetValue)
        {
            return container as FrameworkElement;
        }
        else
        {

            var virtualizingPanel = FindVisualChild(ItemsControl);
            if (virtualizingPanel == null)
            {
                // do something to load the (perhaps currently unloaded panel) once
            }
            virtualizingPanel = FindVisualChild(ItemsControl);

            IItemContainerGenerator generator = ItemsControl.ItemContainerGenerator;
            using (generator.StartAt(generator.GeneratorPositionFromIndex(index), GeneratorDirection.Forward))
            {
                bool isNewlyRealized = false;
                container = generator.GenerateNext(out isNewlyRealized);
                if (isNewlyRealized)
                {
                    generator.PrepareItemContainer(container);
                    bool insert = false;
                    int pos = 0;
                    for (pos = virtualizingPanel.Children.Count - 1; pos >= 0; pos--)
                    {
                        var idx = ItemsControl.ItemContainerGenerator.IndexFromContainer(virtualizingPanel.Children[pos]);
                        if (!insert && idx < index)
                        {
                            ////Add
                            virtualizingPanel.GetType().InvokeMember("AddInternalChild", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, Type.DefaultBinder, virtualizingPanel, new object[] { container });
                            break;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            insert = true;
                            if (insert && idx < index)
                            {
                                break;
                            }
                        }
                    }

                    if (insert)
                    {
                        virtualizingPanel.GetType().InvokeMember("InsertInternalChild", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, Type.DefaultBinder, virtualizingPanel, new object[] { pos + 1, container });
                    }
                }

                return container as FrameworkElement;
            }
        }
    }