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A list of advanced tips & tricks on Virtualized WPF TreeViews
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How to create TreeView in MVC
by Gil Yoder
In this article, I describe how to display data from a simple XML file in a WPF TreeView control.

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Tips & Tricks on loading and saving WPF Tree View based content.
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Demonstrate how to create WPF TrewView with multiple levels of HierarchicalDataTemplate from C# code-behind without XAML using MVVM for data binding
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Tips & tricks on visting and searching nodes in WPF TreeViews
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This is the implementation of Treeview with Multiselect node functionality wide requested by users.

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22 Sep 2017 by Dirk Bahle
A list of advanced tips & tricks on Virtualized WPF TreeViews
8 Dec 2017 by Dirk Bahle, Alaa Ben Fatma
Tips & tricks on visting and searching nodes in WPF TreeViews
15 Dec 2013 by Amey K Bhatkar
How to create TreeView in MVC
23 Jan 2012 by Gil Yoder
In this article, I describe how to display data from a simple XML file in a WPF TreeView control.
9 Jan 2015 by Er. Puneet Goel
This tip implements the TreeView like DropDownList with Search Functionality using Telerik Kendo.
6 Apr 2011 by Espen Harlinn
Assuming you have a class for your tree nodes similar to:[Serializable]public class NodeBase : Base { NodeBase parent; string name; [Bindable(true)] [Browsable(true)] public NodeBase Parent { get { ...
1 Jan 2011 by thatraja
OP wrote:1. My home page became very heavy. Why?May be you are loading heavy number of nodes in treeview. Also check this one too Treeview node limit[^]OP wrote:2. No Cacheing is applied yet. I want to apply cacheing on the page.. Problem is, every content on the page is Dynamic .I think I...
13 Mar 2011 by Espen Harlinn
Hei Morten,Are you looking for theTreeNodeCollection.Remove Method[^]?RegardsEspen Harlinn
4 Apr 2011 by Jonathan Cardy
Hi!You don't need to create your own dialog. .NET does this work for you, simply display a OpenFileDialog through which the user can select files to copy. See the documentation for OpenFileDialog...
2 Sep 2011 by Rupesh Kumar Tiwari
Hi you can store the value instead of searching for id of the selected node in session and select/highlight the node based on the value stored in session.Please see below code: tree view HTML ...
26 Aug 2013 by linush
How to serialize a kendo treeview current view into JSON data
29 Sep 2017 by Er. Puneet Goel
This is the implementation of Treeview with Multiselect node functionality wide requested by users.
23 Sep 2010 by @nuraGGupta@
Hi,I need to develop a windows application in C#, where I have to get all the hierarchy of folders, sub folders and files listed in a database in the order they are on the disk. The place where i am stuck up adding the same hierarchy to the database.I am not getting the exact parent and...
1 Feb 2011 by Lasse Johansen
I have run into a problem. In wpf I have a treeview populated by databinding. The following code is a subset of the complete code.XAML:
5 Apr 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
There is not need to use ArrayList, ever. Instead, use generic System.Collection.Generic.List. Non-generic containers are rendered obsolete with introduction of generics in the .NET Framework 2.0.—SA
5 Apr 2011 by Abhinav S
I would consider using a Dictionary object.
5 Apr 2011 by dan!sh
You do not need ArrayList or anything to do a "save" of the treeview. You can have all the details in the TreeView object. For the actual save of the treeview structure (assuming you are saving that), you will need to have a database set up (depending on the application size) to map all the...
30 Jan 2012 by leppie
Here is yet another alternative (originally from http://xacc.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/tree-traversal-extension-methods/[^]):public static class TreeExtensions{ public static IEnumerable TraverseDepthFirst( this T t, Func valueselect, Func
17 May 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
OK, it goes nowhere. All you need is...
17 May 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Nnorss wrote:I was looking for a little explication of how to extract the "text" value of the "outline" attribute from a OPML fileSure, I see.This is merely an XML file; and .NET Framework's FCL offers enough possibilities for XML parsing. This is my short overview of them:Use...
25 Sep 2013 by Maciej Los
It would be something like that:TreeNode tn = treeView1.Nodes.["Node12"];treeView1.Nodes.Remove(tn);treeView1.Nodes["root"].Nodes.Add(new TreeNode("X"));treeView1.Nodes["X"].Nodes.Add(tb);Note: Not tested (on animals ;) )!Another way is to use TreeNodeCollection.Insert Method...
20 Nov 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
It looks like you need to use the "Owner Draw" feature. See, for example, this CodeProject article: VividTree - A Colorful and Picturesque Owner Drawn CTreeCtrl Class[^].—SA
4 Apr 2014 by KarstenK
you must transform with the right HWNDHWND hParent = GetParent(hwnd);ClientToScreen( hwnd, &ptTreeUL );ClientToScreen( hwnd, &ptTreeLR );//dont write such code ;-)ReleaseDC( GetParent(hwnd), pDC );tip: create the bitmap globally once to improve performance
17 Aug 2015 by DamithSL
private void PrintRecursive(TreeNode treeNode){ //do something with each node //System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(treeNode.Text); foreach (TreeNode tn in treeNode.Nodes) { PrintRecursive(tn); }}// Call the procedure using the TreeView.private void...
13 Apr 2016 by BillWoodruff
As Sergey suggested, the "big win" here would be to get whatever is producing your data formatted as string into JSON, or XML format; parsing those formats to a Tree data structure, or creating a populated TreeView Control using those formats, is straightforward.If you are going to try and...
25 Apr 2016 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
You are doing it wrong. You don't pass a pointer to LVITEM structure which is needed to receive the information on the item. Instead, you cast the function result, which merely returns TRUE or FALSE, indicating success or failure, but never a pointer as you incorrectly assumed.Please...
21 Dec 2017 by Peter Sun (247)
Demonstrate how to create WPF TrewView with multiple levels of HierarchicalDataTemplate from C# code-behind without XAML using MVVM for data binding
19 Jul 2018 by Eric Lynch
The following should work: private static TreeNode FindFirstVisible(TreeNodeCollection nodes) { foreach (TreeNode node in nodes) { if (node.IsVisible) return node; TreeNode first = FindFirstVisible(node.Nodes); if (first != null) return first; } return null; }...
12 Jan 2021 by Chris Copeland
Have you tried changing the myRecordStruct from a struct to a class? class myRecordStruct{ double data1 double data2 double data3 List dataList } An issue with using struct is that they are passed-by-value, rather...
6 Oct 2023 by Richard MacCutchan
A TreeView control does not contain columns, it is structured as a collection of parent-child nodes: see Excel VBA - The Treeview Control[^].
6 Oct 2023 by Dave Kreskowiak
There's no such thing as a "multi-column treeview" in VBA. You'd have to create a custom control in VBA to get such functionality. Google for "vba create custom controls" for more information on creating controls.
17 Sep 2010 by Sandeep Mewara
OPTION 1:While creating/adding a child node, disable or dont attach the right click handler to it.OPTION 2:Store a flag in nodes - IsChild. Based on it's value, if false, show context menu. If true, show a message or just ignore the event. Try!
23 Sep 2010 by Marc A. Brown
I believe you need to get an instance of the "Root" TreeNode, then Clear its Nodes property.
23 Sep 2010 by @nuraGGupta@
Hi all,I want to know that is there anyway put the treeview structure in the same hierarchy in database. I have googled for it but din got a clear understanding. I hope someone could help me out with a better example.Anurag
2 May 2011 by Sandeep Mewara
Here you go: ASP.NET TreeView CheckBoxes – Check All – JavaScript[^]
13 May 2011 by Dave Kreskowiak
Every node has a Parent property. This is trivial to do.All you do is checkedNode.Parent.Checked = Truewhere checkedNode is the node the user checked. You can get this from the eventargs that are passed to you code depending on which TreeView event you're using.
1 Jun 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
"Focus" is a wrong term. Nodes do not have focus (a control has). A node can only be selected or not. So, look at the methods related to selection. For example, use System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.SelectedNode read/write property.This is for Forms. Do this simple exercise by yourself for other...
3 Jun 2011 by OriginalGriff
First off, don't try to to it in the form you display when they select "New" - that form should know nothing about how you display the data it collects. Instead, treat the "New" form in the same way that you do a OpenFileDialog form: create it, set up it's parameters, display it, and then use...
22 Aug 2011 by Roliking
Hello All, I have a treeview for which i am filling the items dynamically. On clicking any item it has to navigate to the page specified in the url of the navigation frame. On first click it is navigating properly but on second click the treeview selected event is not getting fired. It...
5 Sep 2011 by Phoenix234
Basically I am trying to create a Treeview function that highlights a node based off a value I give it.The page loads data from a session and if that session isnt empty it loads the NodeID from the session and highlights it. If the session is empty its the first use so it waits for an input...
25 Nov 2011 by Mehdi Gholam
Each TreeNode has a Parent property just recurse upwards until the Parent is null.
7 Feb 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Normally, the UI paradigm of all tree views assumes that the user selects on node at a time. It looks very natural and clear, and multiple selection mode would be confusing. So, my advise would be not trying to create such tree view style.However, if you really want something like that, you...
15 Mar 2012 by Dave Kreskowiak
Post your question in the forum at the bottom of the article you got this code from.CP articles are written by volunteers from all over the world, not a few individuals employed by CP. So, there is no "I downloaded YOUR code", referring to CP.You downloaded someones code from an...
19 Sep 2017 by rob.evans
I have used Josh Smith's article, "Simplifying the WPF TreeView by Using the ViewModel Pattern", to adapt his technique to a WPF, MVVM, Prism, Unity type application. It works great when I use his sample "hardcoded" data source provided in his download called "TreeVeiwWithViewModelDemo", but I...
3 Aug 2012 by Christian Graus
Well, I googled for you. Apparently, if your tree view is called, for example, Adersh, then there's a js object called Adersh_Data. This has a selectedNodeID property, which has a value property.
19 Aug 2012 by Espen Harlinn
If you have access to Delphi[^] you can have a look at: Virtual Treeview[^]It's blazingly fast, flexible, and Delphi has a wizard that will turn it into an ActiveX component.Best regardsEspen Harlinn
5 Oct 2012 by TheCoolCoder
Numbering for Multilevel ASP.Net Treeview using CSS Counters
22 Oct 2012 by tkucuk
Hi,Solution is very simple. Just change all List to "ObservableCollection.Regards,Tarik
12 Nov 2012 by Andreas Gieriet
How about...//create a datasource for TreeView or GridView using the xml document in memory.XmlDataSource xmlds = new XmlDataSource();xmlds.Data=xdoc.ToString();xmlsd.ID="SomeGloballyUniqueNameForThisDataSource"; // e.g. "Products"...See also MSDN: XmlDataSource.Data...
13 Feb 2013 by CHill60
When you are populating the treeview create the tag when you add the node...Dim tn As TreeNodetn = treeView.Nodes.Add(Me.Nodes(i).ToTreeNode)tn.Tag = i 'Whatever it is that you want in the tagThen read the tag on an appropriate event (e.g. click or afterselect etc)Me.TextBox1.Text =...
14 Feb 2013 by Sheikh Muhammad Haris
Check the link below for implementing TreeView. You will find where you stuck.http://www.codeshode.com/2010/05/display-hierarchical-data-with-treeview.html[^]
2 Apr 2013 by Richard MacCutchan
1. Use a local message code, something like:#define NM_SELECT (WM_APP + 1)and send it from one view to the other via SendMessage.2. you can use the LVS_EDITLABELS style to allow automatic editing of the item column, but I think you have to design your own handler for editing the...
21 May 2013 by Prasaad SJ
You can put all the data into class like in your caseclass CategoryCalss{public string idCat;public string nameCat}class suCateClass{public string idSubCat;public string nameSubCat;public string idCat}class ArticClass{public string idArt, public string name, public string...
31 Jul 2013 by Steve Muirche7
Hi to all at Code Project this is my first post!My query is probably very simple to all you experienced vb developers out there but I am from a Excel VBA developer background and trying to learn to develop using Winforms, Visual Studio 2012 and SQL Server in a very short time frame and am...
21 Aug 2013 by Jochen Arndt
A typical solution might look like this:BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMyTreeCtrl, CTreeCtrl) ON_WM_CONTEXTMENU()END_MESSAGE_MAP()void CMyTreeCtrl::OnContextMenu(CWnd* pWnd, CPoint point){ HTREEITEM hCurSel = GetSelectedItem(); if (point.x
14 Oct 2013 by Akinmade Bond
You might want to start by taking a look at the JQuery $.post API Documentation[^]That said, your code shou;d be $.post ( 'action.php', { "formData": formData } , function(data) { alert(data);});The function should then show the serialized data from the server where you wrote...
20 Nov 2013 by DFaeuster
Thanks for the link to the VividTree.But in the meanwhile I found what I was looking for.I extended my customdraw method of my TreeCtrl with the ITEMPOSTPAINT drawing stage to draw the border around the items I want to additionally highlight when the TreeCtrl does not have the...
8 Dec 2013 by Member 8857897
Hi!I have a problem with my treeView. I build my treeview out of a database through LINQ-To-Entity statements. treeView1.Nodes.Add(tree.InitializeTreeView_R3());My Treeview is then populated and it works great. Now I´m facing the problem that i could not get the actual selectedNode...
8 Dec 2013 by OriginalGriff
Despite the Linq-to-entity stuff, it's a standard TreeeView, and I know the SelectedNode property works - I use it myself.So the question is - where are you trying to read it, when are you trying, and exactly how are you doing it? Becauseprivate void tree_NodeMouseClick(object sender,...
28 Jan 2014 by Member 10557402
I have an ascx with a tree view and I need to reload the tree for every 10 seconds to check for new nodes. To do that I added an Update Panel with a timer to update the tree view.Enterprise.ascx ...
29 Jan 2014 by Ahmed Bensaid
Treeview in update panel[^]
20 Feb 2014 by Krunal Rohit
/* Get the tree node under the mouse pointer and save it in the mySelectedNode variable. */ private void treeView1_MouseDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e){ mySelectedNode = treeView1.GetNodeAt(e.X, e.Y);}private void menuItem1_Click(object sender,...
22 Feb 2014 by Ravi Bhavnani
See this[^] CodeProject article for a starting point on how to do this. This example demonstrates how to add a ComboBox to a node, which you can extend to other types of controls./ravi
19 Mar 2014 by lukeer
Your problem, I suppose, is in the method btnFind_Click(). You're declaring an object of type TreeNode, eventually assigning something to it. But then, the method exits and therefore throws away your precious TreeNode instead of displaying it.Put the displaying code here:private void...
20 Mar 2014 by Alexander Sharykin
if you use WinForms, you can populate tree view with values assinging them unique keyes.e.g.var root = treeViewDemo.Nodes.Add("195", "root");var c = root.Nodes.Add("231", "text 231");var d = c.Nodes.Add("301", "text 301");var e = d.Nodes.Add("404", "text 404");var f =...
31 Mar 2014 by AlwaysLearningNewStuff
I have subclassed the tree view and rejected spacebar if the focused item had no checkbox:LRESULT CALLBACK TreeProc( HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam, UINT_PTR uIdSubclass, DWORD_PTR dwRefData ){ switch (message) { case WM_KEYDOWN: { ...
22 Jun 2014 by SRS(The Coder)
As your question is not that much clear to give you a proper solution still i am trying here to give you some choices to get the solution or a hint to your solution.Let say my TreeView name is 'tvTest'. Now the design for it is :- ...
17 Jul 2014 by danigeraleddin
Hi all, Hi, I'm implementing the treeview control and I need to know if I can just add a tooltip to treenode checkbox, also need know if you can change the position of the checkbox to the right of the legend of the node.I appreciate any help.Thanks in avanced,Daniel.
12 Aug 2014 by SteveyJDay
You will need to create a custom treeview that inherits from TreeView.You will also need to create a custom treeview node class that inherits from TreeNode.Public Class TreeViewTest Inherits TreeView Public Overloads Property Nodes() As List(Of TreeViewNode)End...
19 Sep 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
The problem is solved by using some elementary practical logic. First of all, take all the file/directory names from the file system; it's not possible to create a file mask to add all file except the files matching some mask. So, take them all.Then, concentrate your attention on the point...
3 Jan 2015 by Fiyaz Hasan
Building a parent child hierarchy TreeView
4 Sep 2015 by Abdul Samad KP
This happens because your treenodes have duplicate values, change the line parentTreeNode.Value = firstDataRows["ParentId"].ToString();to parentTreeNode.Value = firstDataRows["Id"].ToString();So that they will have unique values
21 Sep 2015 by BillWoodruff
You could simplify this:private void makeTree(List headings, List items){ foreach (var s0 in headings) { TreeNode newNode = new TreeNode(s0); treeView1.Nodes.Add(newNode); foreach (var s1 in items) { newNode.Nodes.Add(new...
30 Sep 2015 by DoomMaker79
Hi,I have a method that populates a treeview. I call this method from a listview with MouseDoubleClick. This method does all the job: reads the SQL table, generates 3 List (parent, child, grandchild) and some if... and foreach... loops builds the treeview from these lists' elements. Works...
25 Jan 2016 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Please see my comment to the question. If you mean the event when a node is expanded, this is the event of TreeViewItem:TreeViewItem.Expanded Event (System.Windows.Controls)[^].The code sample shows the case when an event handler is "manually" added to the invocation list of the event...
13 Apr 2016 by OriginalGriff
This example uses "(" and ")" - but that's a trivial change: c# - Tree structure as string - how to match nested braces? - Stack Overflow[^]
25 Oct 2016 by Midi_Mick
I use the ObjectListView[^]. Although this article title says "ListView", it has a fantastic Treeview mode included. Very versatile, very powerful, and not too difficult to learn.
25 Oct 2016 by Henrik Jonsson
Here on The Code Project there is an article about a Tri-State TreeView: Tri-State TreeView Control[^] It is old, but it's free.
16 Feb 2017 by NileshKRathod
We have a kendo tree-view already implemented in our web application. In our new requirement we have to add some additional controls inside tree view.>> Scenario 1: Once user select a check box from tree view one textbox should be shown near to selected checkbox (based on some business...
21 Feb 2017 by Graeme_Grant
Google Search is your friend: c# read from a file[^]
21 Feb 2017 by Patrice T
Quote:Question is how do I open any file in c#and google gave you no answer, no example, no nothing ?Quote:I don't want it to be a text file I want to it to be .html, .css, .js or .php files. Would It be the same processAll those files are text files, the file extension doesn't...
22 Mar 2018 by Clifford Nelson
You can use the VisualTreeHelper: private static IEnumerable FindVisualChildren(DependencyObject root) where T : DependencyObject { if (root != null) for (int i = 0; i
23 Jul 2018 by Richard Deeming
According to pinvoke.net[^], you need a MarshalAs attribute on the string parameter: [DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern int SendMessageW( [InAttribute] System.IntPtr hWnd, int Msg, int wParam, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)] string lParam);
16 Feb 2019 by BillWoodruff
Note: I do not have a network to experiment with. Attached is some generic code to map a text file where the line structure reflects a tree structure with some text-delimiter repeated to indicate node level: note, this is code I wrote some time ago, and does not include robust error-checking;...
20 Feb 2019 by Member 12694392
i am currently holding data in string array with '.' seperation. i need to plot the same data in tree view. eg. string[] tagdata = {"TestAlarm1.T1", "Test1.S1.S4", "TestAlarm1.T2", "test2.T1", "Test1.S1.S2.Tag1"}; What I have tried: i have wriiten following code, but i am getting multiple...
20 Feb 2019 by OriginalGriff
{"TestAlarm1.T1", "Test1.S1.S4", "TestAlarm1.T2", "test2.T1", "Test1.S1.S2.Tag1"} Needs to be built as "TestAlarm1" "T1" "T2" "Test1" "S1" "S4" "S2" "Tag1" "test2" "T1" So Split the string and look at the first element. Does it exist in the tree Nodes list? If...
3 Oct 2019 by phil.o
In general, you cannot copy'n'paste some Windows Forms code into an ASP.NET project and expect it to work, because objects are not the same between both technologies. A Windows Forms TreeView is not the same as an ASP.NET TreeView, even if they have the same name. ASP.NET TreeView has a...
14 Oct 2019 by Maciej Los
You should rather read this: How to: Sort and Group Data Using a View in XAML | Microsoft Docs[^] Here is a simple example: WPF Tutorial | Data Viewing, Sorting and Filtering[^]
14 Oct 2019 by Richard Deeming
Try this: NDA.Fill(dt); foreach (DataRow row in dt.Rows) { string tagName = Convert.ToString(row["tag_name"]); string[] parts = tagName.Split('.'); TreeNodeCollection nodes = TreeView1.Nodes; for (int i = 0; i
12 Jan 2021 by RickZeeland
See this article: How to use managed pointers in C# | InfoWorld[^]
2 Mar 2022 by Graeme_Grant
I did a quick Google Search:wpf treeview binding[^] And found this for you: TreeView, data binding and multiple templates - The complete WPF tutorial[^]
27 Jul 2010 by koolprasad2003
Hi all i Have a treeview filled with directory structure. now i want to dragged file name and drop to griview.Then grid view shows the entriy of filenameis it possibleusing asp.net...thannks in advancekoolprasad2003
9 Aug 2010 by sazib
I've two table named aaa_district and aaa_arealist. I want to show them using tree view. District as parent node and area as child node. Also i want to add,edit & delete the node in run time. Can anyone please suggest me how to do that? it's urgent.
10 Aug 2010 by T.Saravanann
Hi Sazib,http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread118395.html[^]This link helpful to you.
11 Aug 2010 by Richard MacCutchan
If you are using MFC (or even pure Win32) then I would suggest using a splitter window with a treeview in one pane and a list view in the other. Alternatively you could show a dialog with a listbox on every tree node selection. Your question is really too general to give a definitive answer in...
17 Aug 2010 by Arun India
Hai.. Is there any control which provide the functionality of tree view and grid view.(Suppose there is a tree view, and when I click on a particular node it should display the details on the 'next column'.Like that when i expand or collapse the tree, the corresponding fields in the...
24 Aug 2010 by LotusShiv
I am using ASP.NET Treeview. I need to populate it upon entering a search criteria in a text box and clicking a button. I want to avoid posting the whole page. I can very easily achieve not posting the whole page, by client callback, but the issue comes when I have to populate the Treeview in...