How to display a property or member of a custom object in Xamarin.Forms Picker?
The Xamarin.Forms Picker provides a support to display a particular object in picker. This can be achieved by setting a particular property to the DisplayMemeberPath property.
The following steps demonstrates how to display a particular object in Xamarin.Forms SfPicker.
Step 1: Create a model class and declare properties to display the items in Xamarin.Forms SfPicker.
Step 2: Create a view model class and create symbol ObservableCollection with model class type.
Step 3: Set value to the model class properties and add the properties to that collection.
Step 4: Set the model class property to DisplayMemberPath to display the particular items in Xamarin.Forms SfPicker.
XAML:
<picker:SfPicker HeaderText="Select a person"
ShowHeader="true"
ItemsSource="{Binding People}"
DisplayMemberPath="LastName">
</picker:SfPicker>
You can find the sample in the following link: Sample
Screenshot:
Conclusion
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