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Update binding

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Written by: Stanko Milosev
Category: WPF
Published: 01 April 2014
Last Updated: 06 April 2022
Hits: 6904

How to bind command to a button I explained here.

Here is my XAML:

<Window x:Class="UpdateBinding.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:viewModel="clr-namespace:UpdateBinding.ViewModel"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
    <Window.Resources>
        <viewModel:UpdateBindingViewModel x:Key="UpdateBindingBindingViewModel" />
    </Window.Resources>
    <Grid DataContext="{StaticResource UpdateBindingBindingViewModel}">
        <StackPanel>
            <TextBox Name="MyTextBox" Text="{Binding Ubm.Name}" VerticalAlignment="Top"/>
            <Button VerticalAlignment="Top" Command="{Binding OnButtonClick}">test</Button>
        </StackPanel>
    </Grid>
</Window>


Command to update value looks like this:

public void UpdateBinding(object obj)
{
  Ubm.Name = "Updated value";
  OnPropertyChanged(() => this.Ubm);
}


Part of code:

protected void OnPropertyChanged<T>(Expression<Func<T>> property)
{
  if (this.PropertyChanged != null)
  {
	var mex = property.Body as MemberExpression;
	string name = mex.Member.Name;
	this.PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(name));
  }
}

I took from here.

Also don't forget to implement INotifyPropertyChanged interface, in my case declaration of viewmodel looks like this:

public class UpdateBindingViewModel: INotifyPropertyChanged


Example application you can download from here.

---

2014-06-11 Update Just a short notice. If you implement interface by default (with resharper alt + enter :) ) then to use it, you have to write which property of class (view model) are you updating. Something like:

[NotifyPropertyChangedInvocator]
protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged([CallerMemberName] string propertyName = null)
{
	PropertyChangedEventHandler handler = PropertyChanged;
	if (handler != null)
	{
		handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
		if (propertyName == "test")
		{
			MyHidden = !MyHidden;
			myContent = "Clicked!";
		}
	}
}

Where OnPropertyChanged is called like this:

OnPropertyChanged("MyHidden");

Obviously this example is not compatible with previous example :) I hope I will update this article soon...

---

2014-06-13 Another update

Check out following code:

namespace BooleanToVisibilityConverterExample.ViewModel
{
  using System.ComponentModel;
  using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
  using System.Windows;
  using System.Windows.Input;

  using BooleanToVisibilityConverterExample.Annotations;

  public class BooleanToVisibilityConverterExampleViewModel: INotifyPropertyChanged
  {
    public ICommand OnClick { get; set; }
    public bool MyHidden { get; set; }

    public BooleanToVisibilityConverterExampleViewModel()
    {
      OnClick = new RelayCommand(ShowHide);
      MyHidden = true;
    }

    private void ShowHide(object obj)
    {
      MyHidden = !MyHidden;
      OnPropertyChanged("MyHidden");
    }

    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

    [NotifyPropertyChangedInvocator]
    protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged([CallerMemberName] string propertyName = null)
    {
      var handler = PropertyChanged;
      if (handler != null)
      {
        handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
      }
    }
  }
}

Here notice lines:

MyHidden = !MyHidden;
OnPropertyChanged("MyHidden");

With these lines I said that I want to update property MyHidden which is bounded to rectangle visibility. This update actually is coming from this article, and example you can download from here.

More about binding

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Written by: Stanko Milosev
Category: WPF
Published: 16 March 2014
Last Updated: 06 April 2022
Hits: 5550

I just want to show one more examples of binding.

Beside binding of TreeView to which I already gave an example here, there is another possibility of TreeView binding.

For this example I don't need model, so my view model looks like this:

public class ClassBinding
{
	public List<string> MyTest
	{
		get
		{
			List<string> pom = new List<string>();
			pom.Add("test");
			return pom;
		}
	}

	public ClassBinding MyContextTest
	{
	  get
	  {
		return new ClassBinding();
	  }
	}

}

My XAML for tree view binding looks like this:

<Grid>
	<TreeView DataContext="{Binding Path=MyContextTest}" ItemsSource="{Binding MyTest}"/>
</Grid>

Notice line {Binding Path=MyContextTest} then notice that MyContextClass is property of the class ClassBinding.

Example project you can download from here.

This article I wrote with help of my colleague from ISE.

Autofac another example

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Written by: Stanko Milosev
Category: WPF
Published: 02 March 2014
Last Updated: 05 April 2022
Hits: 10861

So, idea was to have to listbox where one list box I will fill with data from MySQL, and in another with data from XML.

This is example is maybe not good, since I don't have model, I just wanted to play with autofac on a simplest possible way.

So here are my interfaces:

public interface IMyTree
{
	List<string> Read(List<string> listMyElements);
}
public interface IReadMyTree
{
	List<string> ReadXml();
	List<string> ReadMySql();
}

Here is the class which will actually return

public class DoMytree : IMyTree
{
	public List<string> Read(List<string> listMyElements)
	{
		return listMyElements;
	}
}

Note that this class basically does nothing, that is because I don't have model, so I couldn't pass list of elements, for example, because structure is not same as structure from mySql.

Now, here is example of ReadMySql method:

public class MyReader : IReadMyTree
{
	private readonly IMyTree _output;
	public MyReader(IMyTree output)
	{
		this._output = output;
	}

	public List<string> ReadMySql()
	{
		string MyConString =
		"SERVER=server;" +
		"DATABASE=db;" +
		"UID=user;" +
		"PASSWORD=pass;Convert Zero Datetime=True";

		string sql = "select * from slam_categories";

		try
		{
			var connection = new MySqlConnection(MyConString);
			var cmdSel = new MySqlCommand(sql, connection);

			connection.Open();

			MySqlDataReader dataReader = cmdSel.ExecuteReader();

			var pom = new List<string>();

			while (dataReader.Read())
			{
				object bugId = dataReader["title"];
				pom.Add(bugId.ToString());
			}

			return _output.Read(pom);
		}
		catch (Exception e)
		{
			MessageBox.Show("Error: " + e);
		}
		return null;
	}	
}

Note line: return _output.Read(pom); little bit of nonsense I agree :) I just wanted to follow dependency injection... This example is just for learning, remember ;)

Interesting thing to notice are lines:

var connection = new MySqlConnection(MyConString);
var cmdSel = new MySqlCommand(sql, connection);

connection.Open();

MySqlDataReader dataReader = cmdSel.ExecuteReader();

var pom = new List<string>();

while (dataReader.Read())
{
	object bugId = dataReader["title"];
	pom.Add(bugId.ToString());
}

Here you can see how to fill list of strings from mySql, example how to connect to mySql you find here.

Autofac registration:

public class ReadMySqlTreeViewAutofacViewModel
{
	public static List<string> ReadMySql()
	{
		var scope = MainWindow.Container.BeginLifetimeScope();
		var writer = scope.Resolve<IReadMyTree>();
		return writer.ReadMySql();
	}
	
	public List<string> TreeMySqlViewModels { get; set; }
	
	public ReadMySqlTreeViewAutofacViewModel()
	{
		var builder = new ContainerBuilder();
		builder.RegisterType<MyReader>().As<IReadMyTree>();
		builder.RegisterType<DoMytree>().As<IMyTree>();
		MainWindow.Container = builder.Build();

		TreeMySqlViewModels = ReadMySql();
	}
}

XAML:

<Window x:Class="ReadXmlTreeViewAutofac.View.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:system="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"
        xmlns:viewModel="clr-namespace:ReadXmlTreeViewAutofac.ViewModel"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
    <Window.Resources>
        <viewModel:TreeViewModel x:Key="TreeViewModel" />
        <viewModel:ReadMySqlTreeViewAutofacViewModel x:Key="ReadMySqlTreeViewAutofacViewModel" />
    </Window.Resources>
    <TabControl>
        <TabItem Header="Read from Xml">
            <Grid DataContext="{StaticResource TreeViewModel}" OverridesDefaultStyle="True">
                <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                    <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
                </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                <Grid.RowDefinitions>
                    <RowDefinition Height="*"/>
                </Grid.RowDefinitions>
                <TreeView Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Name="TvXml" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=TreeXmlViewModels}"/>
            </Grid>
        </TabItem>
        <TabItem Header="Read from MySql">
            <Grid OverridesDefaultStyle="True" DataContext="{StaticResource ReadMySqlTreeViewAutofacViewModel}">
                <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                    <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
                </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                <Grid.RowDefinitions>
                    <RowDefinition Height="*"/>
                </Grid.RowDefinitions>
                <TreeView Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Name="TvMySql" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=TreeMySqlViewModels}"/>
            </Grid>
        </TabItem>        
    </TabControl>
</Window>

Things to notice in XAML are lines:

xmlns:viewModel="clr-namespace:ReadXmlTreeViewAutofac.ViewModel"

This is namespace which we will use, and lines:

<viewModel:TreeViewModel x:Key="TreeViewModel" />
<viewModel:ReadMySqlTreeViewAutofacViewModel x:Key="ReadMySqlTreeViewAutofacViewModel" />

These are classes which we will use to bind them with our trees, and finally tree binding:

<TreeView Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Name="TvXml" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=TreeXmlViewModels}"/>

Note that TreeXmlViewModels is property which I am registering it in autofac registration part, also note that I am preparing that property in line TreeXmlViewModels = ReadXml();

Example application you can download from here.

Github is here.

Resizable WPF controls

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Written by: Stanko Milosev
Category: WPF
Published: 24 February 2014
Last Updated: 26 July 2014
Hits: 8653

One example of creating resizable list boxes:

<Window x:Class="DragNdrop2resize.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
    <Grid>
        
        <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
            <ColumnDefinition Width="1*"/>
            <ColumnDefinition Width="2*"/>
        </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

        <ListBox Grid.Column="0">
            <ListBoxItem Content="List box 1"/>
        </ListBox>

        <ListBox Grid.Column="1">
            <ListBoxItem Content="List box 2"/>
        </ListBox>

        <GridSplitter Width="5"
                      HorizontalAlignment="Right"
                      VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
                      Background="Red" />        

    </Grid>
</Window>

As you can see I created column definitions, and added ListBoxes which belong to these columns (Grid.Column="1" for example), and on the end I added GridSpliter. Taken from here.

---

2014-07-26 Update To have vertical resizable list boxes use something like:

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication13.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
    <Grid>
        <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
            <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
        </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition Height="60"/>
            <RowDefinition Height="*"/>
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>        

        <ListBox Grid.Row="0">
            <ListBoxItem Content="List box 1"/>
        </ListBox>

        <ListBox Grid.Row="1">
            <ListBoxItem Content="List box 2"/>
        </ListBox>

        <GridSplitter Height="5"
                      HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
                      VerticalAlignment="Bottom"
                      Background="Red" />
    </Grid>
</Window>
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