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Searching for list items in windows store apps

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Hi,

I have the following scenario.

I have a text box to search and a list of string as you can see in the attached image.

Ofcourse I can decide on which control to use to display the strings as you can see in the image below.

Since the list is huge I want to type in the characters in the text box to find the string I am looking for from the list of strings.

Can somebody tell me which control would be better for this and how can I realize this requirement in windows 8 store applications.

Thursday, September 19, 2013 2:01 PM

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Hi Naveen,

You can have a page containing ListView and a TextBox on top of it. You can change perform the string-matching in the TextChanged event handler. You'll need through the ListView's Items property to go through the items.

If it suits the requirement , Windows 8.1 has a control called SearchBox - there is sample at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/SearchBox-control-sample-0f64f94d

-Sagar
- Marked as answer by Anne Jing Wednesday, September 25, 2013 1:38 AM
Thursday, September 19, 2013 2:40 PM