Binding textbox in ListView's header datatemplate to a filter property

I am creating a customized listview header that has the header text but also has a textbox that you can enter to filter the content of that column. My code currently looks like this:

<UserControl.Resources>
        <DataTemplate x:Key="myHeaderTemplate">
            <StackPanel>
                <TextBlock FontSize="14" Foreground="DarkBlue" Margin="20,4" Text="{Binding}" />
                <TextBox Text="" Margin="4,2" />
            </StackPanel>
        </DataTemplate>
</UserControl.Resources>

which is the definition for the header datatemplate containing the texbox; and the listview

<ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Path=MyData}" IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True">
    <ListView.View>
        <GridView>
            <GridViewColumn Header="Last Name" HeaderTemplate="{StaticResource myHeaderTemplate}"
                            DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=Something}开发者_运维百科" />
            <GridViewColumn Header="First Name" HeaderTemplate="{StaticResource myHeaderTemplate}" 
                            DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=Something}" />
            <GridViewColumn Header="Address" HeaderTemplate="{StaticResource myHeaderTemplate}" 
                            DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=Tube}" />
        </GridView>
    </ListView.View>
</ListView>

I want to be able to build up a filter statement that I can apply to the listview rows, but to do that I have to get the data from each filter textbox in the header template.

Can I somehow bind the textboxes in the headers to properties on my viewmodel? If not is there some other way to get the text?

Thanks for any help.

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You should be able to bind the header to a property like this:

<GridViewColumn 
    Header="{Binding LastNameFilter, RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type ListView}}}" 
    HeaderTemplate="{StaticResource myHeaderTemplate}"
    DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=Something}" />

The RelativeSource is needed to get to the DataContext of the ListView - you could also give it a name and use ElementName instead.

Now you can make a HeaderFilter class:

public class HeaderFilter
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Filter { get; set; }
}

Obviously you would need to extend that class to hook into the event when Filter is changed to perform the filtering.

Put a property for each column header on the object which is the DataContext for your ListView (same object which provides MyData probably)

public class SomeClass
{
    ....
    public HeaderFilter LastNameFilter { get; set; }
    ....
}