With the WPF TreeView, it's a bit more complex, but This is very easy to do with WinForms, because the TreeView is built exactly for this scenario. One of the common requests from people coming from WinForms or even other UI libraries is the ability to show an image next to the text label of a TreeView Shows us that we can stuff pretty much whatever we want to into the Header property instead of just a string and then have the TreeView render it - a greatĮxample of why it's so easy to customize the look of WPF controls. As you can see, I can just specify a text string and then have it rendered directly withoutĭoing anything else, but this is WPF being nice to us - internally, it wraps the text inside of a TextBlock control, instead of forcing you to do it. The Header is an interesting property, though. TreeViewItem's with images and other controls By default, a TreeViewItem is not expanded, but to show you the structure of the example, I have used the IsExpanded property to expand the two parent items. To specify the text we want displayed for each node, we use the Header property. The TreeView control and its child objects are also child tags to its parent object.

We simply declare the TreeViewItem objects directly in the XAML, in the same structure that we want to display them in, where the first tag is a child of This is indeed very easy to get started with, as you can see from the example here: The TreeView control: A simple TreeView exampleĪs we talked about in the previous article, the WPF TreeView can be used in a very simple manner, by adding TreeViewItem objects to it, either fromĬode-behind or simply by declaring them directly in your XAML.

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