How to bind a Listview MaxHeight to the current windows height?

data-binding, wpf

Solution

Another approach (without converter) would be to simply place it in a star-sized Grid. Certainly, this puts some restrictions on your layout. So, it depends on the other content whether this approach can be used or not.

<Grid>
    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <RowDefinition Height="0.75*"/>
        <RowDefinition Height="0.25*"/>
    </Grid.RowDefinitions>

    <ListView Grid.Row="0" VerticalAlignment="Top"/>
    <!-- some other content -->

</Grid>

Since you wanted to specifiy the MaxHeight of the ListView, I have set the `VerticalAlignment` to `Top`, so that it does not use all the available space if it is not needed. Of course, you could also set this to `Bottom` or `Stretch`, depending on your requirements.

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