WPF Grouping Using CollectionViewSource and DataBinding

I bind CollectionViewSource

to ListView

to group items. This all works fine, except when I update ObservableCollection

from a CollectionViewSource

. If I update the value of an object in the collection, the UI is never updated. Here's an example:

<ListView x:Name="MyListView" Margin="0,0,0,65">
    <ListView.GroupStyle>
        <GroupStyle>
            <GroupStyle.ContainerStyle>
                <Style TargetType="{x:Type GroupItem}">
                    <Setter Property="Margin" Value="0,0,0,5"/>
                    <Setter Property="Template">
                        <Setter.Value>
                            <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type GroupItem}">
                                <Expander IsExpanded="true" BorderBrush="#FFA4B97F" BorderThickness="0,0,0,1">
                                    <Expander.Header>
                                        <DockPanel>
                                            <TextBlock FontWeight="Bold" Text="{Binding Name}" Margin="5,0,0,0" Width="80"/>
                                            <TextBlock FontWeight="Bold" Width="60" TextAlignment="Center" Margin="16,0,0,0" Text="{Binding Items, Converter={StaticResource Converter2}}" />
                                        </DockPanel>
                                    </Expander.Header>
                                    <ItemsPresenter />
                                </Expander>
                            </ControlTemplate>
                        </Setter.Value>
                    </Setter>
                </Style>
            </GroupStyle.ContainerStyle>
        </GroupStyle>
    </ListView.GroupStyle>
    <ListView.View>
        <GridView>
            <GridViewColumn Width="300" Header="Amount" >
                <GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
                    <DataTemplate>
                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Amount}" Margin="80,0,0,0"/>
                    </DataTemplate>
                 </GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
            </GridViewColumn>
        </GridView>
    </ListView.View>
</ListView>

      

        
        
        
      

    

You will notice that it calls the converter on the group and gives it a collection of items. This means that the converter can calculate the average of the rows and return the result:

public class AverageConverter : IValueConverter
{
    public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        IEnumerable<object> rows = (IEnumerable<object>) value;
        double average = rows.Average(a => ((DisplayRow) a).Amount);
        return average;
    }

    public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

In the code behind, I add lines and create CollectionViewSource

:

private readonly ObservableCollection displayRows = new ObservableCollection ();

public Window1()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    displayRows.Add(new DisplayRow { Title = "Sales", Amount=16} );
    displayRows.Add(new DisplayRow { Title = "Marketing", Amount=14} );
    displayRows.Add(new DisplayRow { Title = "Technology", Amount=13} );
    displayRows.Add(new DisplayRow { Title = "Sales", Amount=11} );
    displayRows.Add(new DisplayRow { Title = "Marketing", Amount=13} );
    displayRows.Add(new DisplayRow { Title = "Technology", Amount=12} );
    CollectionViewSource viewSource = new CollectionViewSource { Source = displayRows };
    viewSource.GroupDescriptions.Add(new PropertyGroupDescription("Title"));
    MyListView.ItemsSource = viewSource.View;
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

An object DisplayRow

implements INotifyPropertyChanged

and is just a class.

Everything works well and the display is the way I want it, but if I change the value in ObservableCollection

, the UI doesn't change.

If I add an item to the collection, I see it appear on the screen, but the converter is never called to recalculate the mean. Any ideas?