how to implement a searchbar on a listview

[Hernando]

Hi,

I am using  a listview to display a lot of data at the moment, users can multiselect items, I need to add a search bar on the top to filter the data. It must filter the data in the listview in realtime as the user is entering data on the search bar and allow to select multiple items.

Whats the best to do this, using the filter in the listview or using AutoCompleteView ? 

 

Thanks for your help.

 

[Yana]

Hello Hernando,

I would suggest you use AutoCompleteView filtering mechanism and present the filtered results inside the ListView.  You would need to set ShowSuggestionView of the AutoCompleteView to false, so that the popup containing the results wouldn't be shown and bind the ItemsSource of the ListView to the FilteredItems collection of the AutoCompleteView.

I have created a quick example to demonstrate you how this would work, please download the attachment and give it a try.

I hope this would be helpful.

Regards,
Yana
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[Hernando]

this is perfect thank you .