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    copied!<p>I know that there have been questions regarding this error, I've found some and read them but to be honest, I didn't understand a thing.</p> <p>I have a WPF window with two databound ListViews. One is bound to business objects (my custom classes), another to a <code>Dictionary&lt;string, string&gt;</code>. Everything seems to look OK in runtime, but I'm getting errors in the Output window:</p> <p><code>System.Windows.Data Error: 4 : Cannot find source for binding with reference 'RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType='System.Windows.Controls.ItemsControl', AncestorLevel='1''. BindingExpression:Path=HorizontalContentAlignment; DataItem=null; target element is 'ListViewItem' (Name=''); target property is 'HorizontalContentAlignment' (type 'HorizontalAlignment')</code></p> <p>and the same for <code>VerticalContentAlignment</code>.</p> <p>Even though bost ListViews get populated with items as expected, it actually causes a noticeable delay when loading the window.</p> <p>Looking for an answer, I found this thread <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/wpf/thread/f3549b2b-5342-41a1-af04-d55e43c48768" rel="noreferrer">http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/wpf/thread/f3549b2b-5342-41a1-af04-d55e43c48768</a> - and I implemented the suggested solution, supplying default values of both <code>HorizontalContentAlignment</code> and <code>VerticalContentAlignment</code> in both ListViews. It didn't help.</p> <p>Here's the XAML:</p> <ul> <li><p>ListView 1:</p> <pre><code> &lt;ListView Margin="15,50,15,15" Name="lvLanguageCodes" FontSize="13" HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch" VerticalContentAlignment="Stretch"&gt; &lt;ListView.Resources&gt; &lt;Style TargetType="ListViewItem"&gt; &lt;Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch" /&gt; &lt;Setter Property="VerticalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch" /&gt; &lt;/Style&gt; &lt;/ListView.Resources&gt; &lt;ListView.ItemsPanel&gt; &lt;ItemsPanelTemplate&gt; &lt;UniformGrid Columns="3" /&gt; &lt;/ItemsPanelTemplate&gt; &lt;/ListView&gt; </code></pre></li> <li><p>ListView 2</p> <p> </p> <pre><code> &lt;ListView.Resources&gt; &lt;Style TargetType="ListViewItem"&gt; &lt;Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch" /&gt; &lt;Setter Property="VerticalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch" /&gt; &lt;EventSetter Event="Selected" Handler="lvItemSelected" /&gt; &lt;/Style&gt; &lt;Style x:Key="GrayOutMappedColumn" TargetType="{x:Type TextBlock}"&gt; &lt;Style.Triggers&gt; &lt;DataTrigger Binding="{Binding Mapped}" Value="False"&gt; &lt;Setter Property="TextElement.Foreground" Value="Black" /&gt; &lt;/DataTrigger&gt; &lt;/Style.Triggers&gt; &lt;Setter Property="TextElement.Foreground" Value="DarkGray" /&gt; &lt;/Style&gt; &lt;/ListView.Resources&gt; &lt;ListView.GroupStyle&gt; &lt;GroupStyle&gt; &lt;GroupStyle.HeaderTemplate&gt; &lt;DataTemplate&gt; &lt;Border BorderBrush="LightGray" BorderThickness="0,0,0,1"&gt; &lt;TextBlock FontSize="12" FontWeight="Bold" Margin="0,10" Text="{Binding Name}" /&gt; &lt;/Border&gt; &lt;/DataTemplate&gt; &lt;/GroupStyle.HeaderTemplate&gt; &lt;/GroupStyle&gt; &lt;/ListView.GroupStyle&gt; &lt;ListView.ItemsPanel&gt; &lt;ItemsPanelTemplate&gt; &lt;UniformGrid Columns="4" /&gt; &lt;/ItemsPanelTemplate&gt; &lt;/ListView.ItemsPanel&gt; &lt;ListView.ItemTemplate&gt; &lt;DataTemplate&gt; &lt;StackPanel ClipToBounds="False" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Width="Auto"&gt; &lt;TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Style="{StaticResource GrayOutMappedColumn}" Text="{Binding Path=FriendlyName}" Width="Auto" /&gt; &lt;/StackPanel&gt; &lt;/DataTemplate&gt; &lt;/ListView.ItemTemplate&gt; </code></pre></li> </ul> <p>Data-binding code:</p> <pre><code>lvLanguageCodes.ItemsSource = languages; lvLanguageCodes.SelectedValuePath = "Key"; lvLanguageCodes.DisplayMemberPath = "Value"; </code></pre> <p>2:</p> <pre><code>lvDataTypes.ItemsSource = AssignDataType.datatypes; </code></pre> <p>where <code>datatypes</code> is <code>ObservableCollection&lt;Gate&gt;</code>, where <code>Gate</code> is my business class (implementing <code>INotifyPropertyChanged</code>, <code>IComparable</code> and nothing special about it otherwise).</p> <p>Why am I getting an error? Why is it trying to bind these alignment properties to anything at all, if I set their values explicitly?</p>
 

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