I have hooked up the Autocomplete box to the default DataGridSelectionAdapter class, that comes with the toolkit example.

However, instead of the default Airport data, I’ve hooked it up to a WCF service, where I get the data. The type of data returned is a List

The problem is instead of showing me the text Person.FullName text in the string, when I change selection in the dropdown, it is showing me the Tostring() of the class type.

Here is my XAML code:

Here is my .XAML.CS code :

public partial class Page : UserControl
{

//private variables
public Page()
{
InitializeComponent();
// In this version we filter at the server, so Mode=None.
autoComplete1.SearchMode = AutoCompleteSearchMode.None;
//Loaded += OnLoaded;
}
private void autoComplete1_KeyUp(object sender, System.Windows.Input.KeyEventArgs e)
{
if (autoComplete1.Text.Length
{
args.Cancel = true;
WCFPeopleSearchServiceClient client = new WCFPeopleSearchServiceClient();
client.DoSearchCompleted += client_DoSearchCompleted;
client.DoSearchAsync(autoComplete1.Text);
};
}

///
/// Handle the loaded event.
///
/// The source object.
/// The event data.
//private void OnLoaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
//{
// autoComplete1.ItemFilter = (search, item) =>
// {
// Person person = item as Person;
// if (person != null)
// {
// // Interested in: FullName, OR Nickname
// string filter = search.ToUpper(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
// return (person.FullName.ToUpper(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).Contains(filter)
// || person.NickName.ToUpper(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).Contains(filter));
// }
// return false;
// };
//}
private void client_DoSearchCompleted(object sender, DoSearchCompletedEventArgs e)
{
autoComplete1.ItemsSource = e.Result;
autoComplete1.MinimumPrefixLength = 2;
autoComplete1.IsTextCompletionEnabled = true;
// No itemfilter here since we are filtering at the server.
autoComplete1.PopulateComplete();
}
}

//convertor classes
public class EmailLinkConverter : IValueConverter
{
public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
{
string emailLink = string.Format(“mailto:{0}”, value);
return emailLink;
}

public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
{
throw new NotImplementedException();
}
}

I have tried many examples, but nothing seems to help. I just need the damn text selected.

And I do not want to call the WCF on the load.

Please help.

Thank you.