When I have a comboBox in my view and want a empty item to be able to unselect the option, I use this code in my view:
<ComboBox.Resources>
<CollectionViewSource x:Key="comboBoxSource" Source="{Binding ElementName=ucPrincipal, Path=DataContext.MyProperty}" />
</ComboBox.Resources>
<ComboBox.ItemsSource>
<CompositeCollection>
<entities:MyType ID="-1"/>
<CollectionContainer Collection="{Binding Source={StaticResource comboBoxSource}}" />
</CompositeCollection>
</ComboBox.ItemsSource>
In this case, is the view which sets the ID to -1 to indicate that is special item. But I don't like so much this solution because the view model depends that the view sets it correctly.
So I am thinking to have this property in my view model:
public readonly MyType MyNullItem = new MyType();
But I don't know how to use it in my composite collection in the view instead of:
<entities:MyType ID="-1"/>
Is it possible?
Thanks.