how to bind two xml files to a single control in wpf

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I am having two XML files.

Events.xml and Seminar.xml. I am using xaml data provider. My question is how to bind these two XML files to a single list box, single XML file I am able to bind through this code.

HTML

<Window.Resources>
  <XmlDataProvider x:Key="ProductData"
                   Source="/Product.xml"
                   XPath="Products/Product" />
</Window.Resources>

And binded it to the list box using -

HTML

<ListBox 
   ItemsSource="{Binding 
                 Source={StaticResource ProductData}}"
   DisplayMemberPath="ProductName" />.its working
now i want to to bind two xml files to change the ui continously.i asked m sir he told use collection view source.i searched but iam unable to find out how to do.the place where i lacked is
 <XmlDataProvider x:Key="ProductData"
                   Source="/Product.xml"...///here i have two xml files then how to specify the source
                   XPath="Products/Product" />...here also 
  <CollectionViewSource x:Key="collProducts"
                        Source="{StaticResource ProductData}">

Any one please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 8-Dec-11 18:35pm

satishmachineni

Updated 8-Dec-11 23:22pm

RaisKazi

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SteveAdey · Answer 1 · 2012-01-17T22:12:00

You're easier handling the CollectionViewSource in the code behind to achieve what you need. See my example here MVVM ListBox Grouping[^] that has an example of the CollecitonViewSource being manipulated in the code. From this, it should be easy to merge your two xml files into the list.