Yet another blog about WPF, Surface, SL, MVVM, NUI.... - Tag - OnPropertyChanged

Execute a command on a specified control when clicking on a button

2010-06-16T15:07:00+02:00

Today another example of the powerful ramora pattern : execute a RoutedCommand on an Control when you click on a button outside of the aimed control scope. When is it useful ? : for example when you use the infragistics grid (xamdatagrid) and you want to execute the command which remove the selected row from a button outside of the grid. You... Read Execute a command on a specified control when clicking on a button

Binding on a Property which is not a DependencyProperty

2010-04-05T09:03:00+02:00

A lot of controls expose properties which are not DependencyProperties and then you can’t put a binding on it. On some other cases, you only have a getter as accessor and you can’t put a binding on it too… This is for example the case for the ribbon’s group of the office ribbon or the converter’s parameter. If you ever tried to do so, you... Read Binding on a Property which is not a DependencyProperty

DependencyProperties or INotifyPropertyChanged ?

2010-03-01T12:31:00+01:00

When you want to make an object binding-aware you have two choices : implement INotifyPropertyChanged or create DependencyProperties. Which one is the best ? Let's try to answer this question ! How to implement INotifyPropertyChanged Declaring that your class is implementing INotifyPropertyChanged adds an PropertyChangedEventHandler that you... Read DependencyProperties or INotifyPropertyChanged ?

MVVM - Creating ViewModel : wrap your business object (solution 1 of n).

2010-02-24T12:06:00+01:00

Intro When you create WPF applications, you may (or you should !) use the M-V-VM pattern and so have to use/create ViewModel. The viewModel job is mainly to expose properties of your businessObjects to your views, ready for binding. To be ready for the binding the most used solution is to implement INotifyPropertyChanged and to fire events fo... Read MVVM - Creating ViewModel : wrap your business object (solution 1 of n).

Use dataBinding and DependencyProperty with a non-WPF or extern object

2009-04-10T10:52:00+02:00

Today we are going to learn how we can uses the powerful data binding of WPF even on non-WPF objects. The problem: when to use this solution ? Sometimes you need to use the databinding with an object that you have not created and you can't use inheritance. For example I wanted to use a Mogre Camera and build some WPF animation with it and I... Read Use dataBinding and DependencyProperty with a non-WPF or extern object