TileView Operations in WPF Tile View Control

18 Nov 201814 minutes to read

This section explains different UI customization and common features available in WPF Tile View Control.

Populating items using TileViewItem

You can add the tileview items inside the control by adding the TileViewItem into the TileViewControl.Items collection property.

<syncfusion:TileViewControl Name="tileViewControl">
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 1" Header="Item 1" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 2" Header="Item 2" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 3" Header="Item 3" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 4" Header="Item 4" />
</syncfusion:TileViewControl>
TileViewControl tileViewControl = new TileViewControl();
tileViewControl.Items.Add(new TileViewItem() { Content="Content 1",
    Header = "Item 1" });
tileViewControl.Items.Add(new TileViewItem() { Content="Content 2",
    Header = "Item 2" });
tileViewControl.Items.Add(new TileViewItem() { Content="Content 3",
    Header = "Item 3" });
tileViewControl.Items.Add(new TileViewItem() { Content = "Content 4",
    Header = "Item 4" });

TileView items are populated to the TileView control

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Populating items using binding

You can populate items to the WPF Tile View Control by setting the collection value to the ItemsSource property.

Please refer Data Binding page to know more details about binding support available in the WPF Tile View Control.

Select a TileViewItem

You can select any TileViewItem by mouse click on the specific TileViewItem. You can get the selected item by using the SelectedItem property. You can also get the selected value and its index by using the SelectedValue and SelectedIndex properties. The default value of SelectedItem property is null.

You can select only one item at a time.

<syncfusion:TileViewControl Name="tileViewControl">
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 1" Header="Item 1" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 2" Header="Item 2" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 3" Header="Item 3" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 4" Header="Item 4" />
</syncfusion:TileViewControl>
TileViewControl tileViewControl = new TileViewControl();
tileViewControl.Items.Add(new TileViewItem() { Content="Content 1",
    Header = "Item 1" });
tileViewControl.Items.Add(new TileViewItem() { Content="Content 2",
    Header = "Item 2" });
tileViewControl.Items.Add(new TileViewItem() { Content="Content 3",
    Header = "Item 3" });
tileViewControl.Items.Add(new TileViewItem() { Content = "Content 4",
    Header = "Item 4" });

TileViewItem selected by mouse click

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Select TileViewItem programmatically using property

You can select a particular TileViewItem programmatically by using the TileViewItem.IsSelected property.

<syncfusion:TileViewControl Name="tileViewControl">
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 1" Header="Item 1" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem IsSelected="True"
                             Content="Content 2" Header="Item 2" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 3" Header="Item 3" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 4" Header="Item 4" />
</syncfusion:TileViewControl>
TileViewControl tileViewControl = new TileViewControl();
tileViewControl.Items.Add(new TileViewItem() { Content="Content 1",
    Header = "Item 1" });
tileViewControl.Items.Add(new TileViewItem() { Content="Content 2",
    Header = "Item 2", IsSelected = true });
tileViewControl.Items.Add(new TileViewItem() { Content="Content 3",
    Header = "Item 3" });
tileViewControl.Items.Add(new TileViewItem() { Content = "Content 4",
    Header = "Item 4" });

Particular TileViewItem selected by using IsSelected property

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Selected item changed notification

The selected item changed in WPF Tile View Control can be examined using SelectionChanged event. The SelectionChanged event contains the old and newly selected item in the RemovedItems and AddedItems properties.

<syncfusion:TileViewControl SelectionChanged="TileViewControl_SelectionChanged" 
                            Name="tileViewControl">
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 1" Header="Item 1" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 2" Header="Item 2" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 3" Header="Item 3" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 4" Header="Item 4" />
</syncfusion:TileViewControl>
tileViewControl.SelectionChanged += TileViewControl_SelectionChanged;

You can handle the event as follows,

private void TileViewControl_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e) {
    //Get old and new selected TileView item
    var oldItem = e.RemovedItems;
    var newItem = e.AddedItems;
}

Display TileViewItem splitter

If you want to display the splitter between maximized and each minimized items, use the SplitterVisibility property value as Visible. You can also change the splitter color and thickness by using the SplitterColor and SplitterThickness properties. The default value of SplitterVisibility is Collapsed, SplitterColor value is Gray and SplitterThickness value is 0.

<syncfusion:TileViewControl SplitterColor="Red" 
                            SplitterThickness="2" 
                            SplitterVisibility="Visible"
                            Name="tileViewControl">
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 1" Header="Item 1" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 2" Header="Item 2" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 3" Header="Item 3" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 4" Header="Item 4" />
</syncfusion:TileViewControl>
tileViewControl.SplitterColor = Brushes.Red;
tileViewControl.SplitterThickness = 2;
tileViewControl.SplitterVisibility = Visibility.Visible;

Displaying the TileViewItem splitter

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Custom UI of TileViewItem header

You can customize the appearance of TileViewItem headers by using the HeaderTemplate property. The DataContext of the HeaderTemplate property is TileViewItem.Header.

<syncfusion:TileViewControl  Name="tileViewControl">
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Header="Item 1" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Header="Item 2" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Header="Item 3" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewItem Header="Item 4" />
    <syncfusion:TileViewControl.HeaderTemplate>
        <DataTemplate x:Name="headerTemplate">
            <Grid>
                <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center"
                           Text="{Binding}" 
                           FontFamily="Verdana"
                           Background="Yellow"
                           Foreground="Red"/>
            </Grid>
        </DataTemplate>
    </syncfusion:TileViewControl.HeaderTemplate>
</syncfusion:TileViewControl>

TileViewItem header panel UI changed

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Custom UI of specific TileViewItem header

You can customize the appearance of specific TileViewItem headers by using the TileViewItem.HeaderTemplate property. The DataContext of the TileViewItem.HeaderTemplate property is TileViewItem.Header.

<Window.Resources>
    <DataTemplate x:Key="headerTemplate">
        <Grid>
            <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center"
                       Text="{Binding}" 
                       FontFamily="Verdana"
                       Background="Yellow"
                       Foreground="Red"/>
        </Grid>
    </DataTemplate>
</Window.Resources>
<Grid>
    <syncfusion:TileViewControl  Name="tileViewControl">
        <syncfusion:TileViewItem Header="Item 1" 
                                 HeaderTemplate="{StaticResource headerTemplate }" />
        <syncfusion:TileViewItem Header="Item 2" />
        <syncfusion:TileViewItem Header="Item 3" />
        <syncfusion:TileViewItem Header="Item 4" 
                                 HeaderTemplate="{StaticResource headerTemplate }" />
    </syncfusion:TileViewControl>
</Grid>

Specific TileViewItem header panel UI changed

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Custom UI of TileViewItem content

You can customize the appearance of TileViewItem content by using the ItemTemplate property. The DataContext of the ItemTemplate property is TileViewItem.Content.

<Window.Resources>
    <DataTemplate x:Key="contentTemplate">
        <Grid>
            <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center"
                       Text="{Binding}"
                       Foreground="Red"/>
        </Grid>
    </DataTemplate>
</Window.Resources>

<Grid>
    <syncfusion:TileViewControl ItemTemplate="{StaticResource contentTemplate}"
                                Name="tileViewControl">
        <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 1" Header="Item 1" />
        <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 2" Header="Item 2" />
        <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 3" Header="Item 3" />
        <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 4" Header="Item 4" />
    </syncfusion:TileViewControl>
</Grid>

TileViewItem content UI changed

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Custom UI of specific TileViewItem content

You can customize the appearance of specific TileViewItem content by using the TileViewItem.ContentTemplate property. The DataContext of the TileViewItem.ContentTemplate property is TileViewItem.Content.

<Window.Resources>
    <DataTemplate x:Key="contentTemplate">
        <Grid>
            <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center"
                       Text="{Binding}"
                       Foreground="Red"/>
        </Grid>
    </DataTemplate>
</Window.Resources>

<Grid>
    <syncfusion:TileViewControl Name="tileViewControl">
        <syncfusion:TileViewItem ContentTemplate="{StaticResource contentTemplate}"
                                 Content="Content 1" Header="Item 1" />
        <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 2" Header="Item 2" />
        <syncfusion:TileViewItem Content="Content 3" Header="Item 3" />
        <syncfusion:TileViewItem ContentTemplate="{StaticResource contentTemplate}"
                                 Content="Content 4" Header="Item 4" />
    </syncfusion:TileViewControl>
</Grid>

Specific TileViewItem content UI changed

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