Populating a Summary List with Data

As you've seen, you populate the DataGrid and ListBox controls in exactly the same manner as one another, by assigning/binding a collection or collection view to their ItemsSource properties.

Let's now look into this topic further, and investigate the type of data that these controls will accept. We'll introduce the ObservableCollection<T> type, and then introduce the concept of collection views that will allow us to manipulate the data displayed in the summary list without affecting the underlying collection. We'll then demonstrate how you can go about wiring these controls up to this data.

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