Best Design for tree hierarchy in Windows store apps.

Question

Hello, I am developing an app where i need to implement treeview in following manner

<Finance>
<Year id="2012">
<Income>
 <FixedIncome>
   <Income1/>
   <Income2/>
  </FixedIncome>
  <variableIncome>
    <Income1/>
    <Income2/>
  </VariableIncome>
</Income>
<Expenses>
  <FixedExpenses>
   <Expense1/>
   <Expense2/>
  </FixedExpenses>
  <variableExpense>
    <Expense1/>
    <Expense2/>
  </VariableExpense>
</Expenses>
</Income>
</Year>
<Year id="2013">
<Income>
 <FixedIncome>
   <Income1/>
   <Income2/>
  </FixedIncome>
  <variableIncome>
    <Income1/>
    <Income2/>
  </VariableIncome>
</Income>
<Expenses>
  <FixedExpenses>
   <Expense1/>
   <Expense2/>
  </FixedExpenses>
  <variableExpense>
    <Expense1/>
    <Expense2/>
  </VariableExpense>
</Expenses>
</Income>
</Year>
</Finance>

Can you suggest or point some best way to design this hierarchy? Do you composite design will be preferable? I mean some thing like below.

class Node
{
  Node Parent;
  List<Node> ChildNodes;
}

Any inputs?

Thanks

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Vamsidhar M

Answer 1

look how mail implemented folders? would that be something that fits for your scenario?

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Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer - Windows Store Apps Using C#

Answer 2

Yes. Taht will work. Can you point any link on how to implement this?

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Vamsidhar M

Answer 3

I like the idea of something similar to the mail folders as suggested, but is this for a multi-line Select box or for the main UI content? If for the first scenario, check out the Windows SDK sample Essential Controls Sample.

Regards,

Christine

Answer 4

look how mail implemented folders? would that be something that fits for your scenario?