This is how I filtered the items on my TreeView
:
I have the class:
class Node
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public List<Node> Children { get; set; }
// this is the magic method!
public Node Search(Func<Node, bool> predicate)
{
// if node is a leaf
if(this.Children == null || this.Children.Count == 0)
{
if (predicate(this))
return this;
else
return null;
}
else // Otherwise if node is not a leaf
{
var results = Children
.Select(i => i.Search(predicate))
.Where(i => i != null).ToList();
if (results.Any()){
var result = (Node)MemberwiseClone();
result.Items = results;
return result;
}
return null;
}
}
}
Then I could filter results as:
// initialize Node root
// pretend root has some children and those children have more children
// then filter the results as:
var newRootNode = root.Search(x=>x.Name == "Foo");