Implementing native search function on listbox in windows phone 7

Question

I currently have a listbox that gets populated and wanted to know how to easily incorporate the native windows search function that one sees in the 'people' app for example..

There is an older post that deals with the same issue but the example that the accepted answer points to no longer exists it seems.

I would like to have the search function pop-up on a clickHandler.. naturally. Any help would greatly be appreciated!

Answer 1

I am afraid you have to implement something custom in this case.

If you just want to filter the items by a first letter then you can use LongListSelector as explained here http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/articles/LongListSelector-walkthrough

If you want to have a textbox based search-filter then you have execute a search command on every TextChanged event within the textbox(input area for search criteria). Search command will iterate though the items and filter those which correspond to the entered criteria.