C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Projects Using Azure - Second Edition

TreeView Item model and ItemsSource

In order to bind something to a control in UWP, you need something. Essentially, what that means is that we need a model.

A model, in .NET terms, is simply a class that holds data.

We're going to create a new class, and we'll call it Item:

public class Item
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public ObservableCollection<Item> Children { get; set; } = new ObservableCollection<Item>();
    public ItemType ItemType { get; set; }
    public string FullName { get; set; }
 
    public override string ToString()
    {
        return Name;
    }
}

I would always recommend that models are held in their own file and sit in a folder called Models, but there's no technical reason why you couldn't add this class to the end of ImportBooks.cs.

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