Legend Initialize Method

[SeanFairhurst]

I'm trying to use the Legend programatically before it has been viewed by the user.  But it's LayerItem count = 0 until it's been exposed to the user in the application.  Is there some other way to initialize the Legend object for use in the code behind?

[DominiqueBroux]

The template of a control is only applied whether the control is in the visual tree and is visible.
So the behavior you mentionned is normal.

The workaround might be to set the legend as visible by default and then set it to 'Collapsed' on event 'Loaded'.