Binding LINQ to Silverlight Listview

I hate having to look deep and hard and then when I don’t find anything on Google, I move into uncharted territory.  So here is some code on how to bind a Silverlight Listview with LINQ.

One point, I don’t care that much about making this that presentable, so here is what I wrote.  The LINQ could probably be built better, but if you know what I work or who I work for, you know that all I build is Demo Apps.  So this won’t be production, its just showing the fact that it can be done. This Demo shows Hurricanes in a Listview.  The list of hurricanes were pulled from the NOAA site.

A few things to point out:

1. I pulled all the hurricanes from the DB and then started working on them.  So everything is already in cache.
2. When doing Hierarchical data tempates, the ITEMSOURCE and ITEM templates are point to the the next lower level of the Template.  So if you look in the XAML, you will see the the item source and item templates point to the next layer down. I didn’t know this.

C# Service:

public class HurricaneServices : IHurricaneServices
    {
        public List<HurricanesClass> GetHurricanes()
        {
            var hurricanes = HurricanesClass.GetCachedHurricanes();

             return(from xx in hurricanes
                      group xx by xx.Hurricane_Name into gg
                      orderby gg.FirstOrDefault().DateTime_Reported descending
                      where gg.Key != null
                      select new HurricanesClass
                      {
                          Hurricane_Name = gg.Key.Replace(".mxd", ""),
                          Types = (from yy in hurricanes
                                   where yy.Hurricane_Name == gg.Key
                                   group yy by yy.Type into zz
                                   where zz.Key != null
                                   select new HurricanesClass
                                   {
                                       Type = zz.Key,
                                       Services = (from cc in hurricanes
                                                   where cc.Type == zz.Key
                                                   where cc.Hurricane_Name == gg.Key
                                                   orderby cc.DateTime_Reported descending
                                                   select new HurricanesClass
                                                   {
                                                       DateTime_Reported = cc.DateTime_Reported,
                                                       Webservice_Name = cc.Webservice_Name,
                                                       Webservice_URL = cc.Webservice_URL,
                                                   }).ToList()
                                   }).ToList()
                      }).ToList();
        }
    }

Here is the XAML it is binded to:

<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
        <Grid.Resources>
            <sdk:HierarchicalDataTemplate x:Key="HurricaneServices">
                <StackPanel MouseLeftButtonDown="StackPanel_MouseLeftButtonDown">
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Webservice_Name}"></TextBlock>
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=DateTime_Reported}"></TextBlock>
                    <TextBlock x:Name="wsURL" Text="{Binding Path=Webservice_URL}"></TextBlock>
                </StackPanel>
            </sdk:HierarchicalDataTemplate>
            <sdk:HierarchicalDataTemplate x:Key="HurricaneTypes" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Services}" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource HurricaneServices}">
                <StackPanel>
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Type}"></TextBlock>
                </StackPanel>
            </sdk:HierarchicalDataTemplate>
            <sdk:HierarchicalDataTemplate x:Key="HurricaneNames" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Types}" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource HurricaneTypes}">
                <StackPanel>
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Hurricane_Name}"></TextBlock>
                </StackPanel>
            </sdk:HierarchicalDataTemplate>
        </Grid.Resources>
        <sdk:TreeView x:Name="mytree" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource HurricaneNames}" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Height="300" Width="800" Background="Gray">
        </sdk:TreeView>
    </Grid>

And last but not least, the Binding Syntax.  The code behind of the XAML page.

     public HurricaneData()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            HurricaneService.HurricaneServicesClient ws = new HurricaneService.HurricaneServicesClient();
            ws.GetHurricanesCompleted += new EventHandler<HurricaneService.GetHurricanesCompletedEventArgs>(webService_GetCustomersByLastNameCompleted);
            ws.GetHurricanesAsync();
                    }
        void webService_GetCustomersByLastNameCompleted(object sender, HurricaneService.GetHurricanesCompletedEventArgs e)
        {
            mytree.ItemsSource = e.Result;
        }