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How to do all the things to a Collection - Sorting, Filtering, Updating, Grouping

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Description

Issue type

sample request

Which version of the app?

WinUI 3 Gallery

Description

Especially for the new ItemsView, but even just for ListView, there's not a full-fledged example anywhere of how to take a large collection of items and performantly sort, filter, update, and group them within a UI container.

In WPF, CollectionViewSource did a lot of heavy lifting here, but there's a gap for the platform still on this: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/4307

So, even more so, a sample that shows how to do this that's production ready would be appreciated.

The doc on filtering that do exist, seems woefully inefficient or error-prone compared to the simplicity of setting the Filter from WPF days: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/desktop/wpf/data/how-to-filter-data-in-a-view

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing ListView filtering documentation and the ItemsView and ListView examples in WinUI Gallery, then compare the linked WPF CollectionViewSource guidance. Done means a production-ready sample demonstrates performant sorting, filtering, updating, and grouping of a large collection within a UI container.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
csharp
Domain
desktop, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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