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It sounds like you have an underlying data item that you are updating in the view model using two way binding. I can't quite decide from your description what your architecture is, but I do think that you aren't raising a change notification when you should be. If you remember, as we've discussed many, many times, WPF uses the INotifyChanged.PropertyChangedEventHandler to manage the update of bound items, so your code must call the PropertyChangedEventHandler at the appropriate point (and you should tell it which property has changed).

Make sure that the class in the DataContext implements INotifyChanged, and then call the event handler as appropriate. Without seeing any of your code, this is pure guesswork and speculation.

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Yes, I think I understand or may be not...
May be I did not explain properly the issue.
I have read your comment several times but I still do not see the solution.
To re-cap:
listbox is populated by fullnames from the database.
on selection of each fullname the textboxes are populated i.e. txtaddress, etc...
If a value is changed in the textbox and submit is pressed then the data gets saved into the database BUT if the save button is not clicked and only you click on another fullname, then when you go back to the first fullname, then the textbox value you entered (which you did not save) will be present.
Surely, the value of the textbox should be as same as what is in the database, right?
Thanks

arkiboys wrote:
Surely, the value of the textbox should be as same as what is in the database,
right?

Not if you've updated it with 2 way binding.

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I think I figured it out because although I have not placed any mode in textbox xaml, by default it is using twoway mode.
Thanks for pointing that out.

Common property(Not dependency property) will not be bound with the "TwoWay" Mode(Actually, only special dependency property would, when register dependency property there is an option ).If you want bind it "TwoWay",please implement the interface INotifyPropertyChanged in you "Model" Layer.

You may need to take a look at IEditableObject and IEditableCollectionView. If you'd like to read the blog and download the code sample here[^], you'll get some idea as to how the transaction support in WPF can help you.

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To me this sounds like the correct behaviour, by changing the text you have changed the property in your data context, and although you have not commited this to the database you are not refreshing the data from the database when re selecting the item. If you wish for any changed to be undone if you do not press the save button you may wish to consider calling

ObjectContext.Refresh(RefreshMode.StoreWins, WhatToRefresh);

The WhatToRefresh could be ObjectContext.NamesSourceTable, or to be more graceful you could just pass the previously slected item, i would guess that you call this when you change the slected item on the list. If you need a more full solution post a you code and i'll try to edit it for you.

Why have you posted this to me? The OP doesn't get notified on replies to other people's comments, and I am more than fully aware of how binding works in WPF/SL.

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clicked the wrong reply link by mistake i guess, was simply trying to offer a solution to the OP.

No problems. Simply add a reply to one of his posts and link to the answer you gave there.

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To me this sounds like the correct behaviour, by changing the text you have changed the property in your data context, and although you have not commited this to the database you are not refreshing the data from the database when re selecting the item. If you wish for any changed to be undone if you do not press the save button you may wish to consider calling

ObjectContext.Refresh(RefreshMode.StoreWins, WhatToRefresh);

The WhatToRefresh could be ObjectContext.NamesSourceTable, or to be more graceful you could just pass the previously slected item, i would guess that you call this when you change the slected item on the list. If you need a more full solution post a you code and i'll try to edit it for you.

We have one screen that has a datagrid. The datagrid contains the entire object (Parcel) and displays 3 fields in the display. The display is intended to be as such:

All parcels for a given site.
Highlight (or use a checkbox) to display those parcels that pertain to this record.

We can always do it the old way -- iterate thru the existing elements manually turning on the checkbox. But I prefer to keep this loosely bound. We've tried a few things but we both get brain freeze when coming up with the next approach.

Any suggestions on deploying this display of a query that intersects a subquery?

How about using a value converter[^]?

A converter would be called as each row binds to the datagrid.

The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it.

Thanks for the suggestion but the passing of the subquery is where ValueConverter fails.

MSDN suggested that I implement an Interaction.Trigger and invoke a DelegateCommand.
I'm going to give that route a try.

Michael

Not sure why you need a sub-query. Can you not bind the checkbox to the site of the parcel, use a value converter passing in the current site as a converter parameter and return true if they are equal?

Not sure why you need a sub-query. Can you not bind the checkbox to the record id of the parcel, use a value converter passing in the current record id as a converter parameter and return true if they are equal?

A quick and dirty way would be to expose an IsSelected property on your parcel and bind to that.

C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.

I use an MVVM / custom control library that I wrote myself. Right now it works like this at a high level:

* all view models are derived from ViewModelBase
* I have an attached Type property called ViewModel that gets specified something like:

<Window ...
MyMVVMLib::ViewModelBase.ViewModel="{x:Type local:Test}">
.
.
</Window>

My library creates an instance of local:Test and sets the Window.DataContext equal to that instance.

* At this point, all ViewModels must have a default parameterless constructor
* ViewModelBase also has a static ServiceLocator

I have not really used Dependency Injection before, but it is my understanding that my current code looks like this:

public class Test : ViewModelBase
{
public Test()
{
ServiceLocator.GetService<IFoo1>();
ServiceLocator.GetService<IFoo2>();
}
}

vs. Dependency Injection which looks something like:

public class Test : ViewModelBase
{
public Test(IFoo1 foo1, IFoo2 foo2)
{
}
}

at some point early in the start up, you are supposed to register the interface <-> implementation class mappings?

So if I want to add DI support to my MVVM lib, it is my understanding that the ViewLocator needs to go through the params in the constructor and match up the interfaces with the classes that you registered.

I am **NOT** interested in using a DI lib that somebody else wrote like Unity, etc. I am interested in knowing how they work and implementing my own.

Seems like the requirement is that you have a single public constructor? Some libs I have seen add a custom attribute like [DependencyInjection] or [Ninject] to the one constructor that you want the DI to happen on? What is the best approach?

Are these libs using reflection to go through the constructor params? Or some other cool mechanism for which I am unaware?

I assume there is some kind of caching going on? Like, it only needs to go through the reflection once and then caches the interfaces and the order of which they are passed in?

Last question for now... seems like ServiceLocator, you pass in the type and a class instance to register, but in DI, you pass in an interface type and a class instance type?

I thought Unity was open source - why dont you have a look at the source code itself?

The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it.

Thanks, I took a look at the code. Its still not very clear how it works. It doesn't seem to use reflection for example to determine parameters. Seems like it uses some other unknown (to me) mechanism.

hey, I just started taking a look at this myself.

Try the following - takes you through building your own (if very simple IOC)..
http://weblogs.asp.net/sfeldman/archive/2008/02/14/understanding-ioc-container.aspx[^]

Hope that helps.

Jesus... I can barely read that article Big Grin | :-D

. The English on it is so poor! The guy is just randomly making up words as he goes along it seems.

Anyways, thanks for the link... it seems to be LEADING to DI, but its not DI.

He does something like this:

public Gadget() : this(Container.Instance.GetImplementerOf<ILogger>())
{
}

thats kind of manual DI which is not really DI IMO. Its more Service Locator.

EDIT: I also saw part 2 of his blog where he just added XML support to the container. Still not really DI since he is still manually resolving the dependencies which is more Service Locator as I mentioned above. I mean, the pattern is sort of DI with the interfaces in the constructor, but then he uses manual resolution whereas true DI is automatic.

Yeah, I Agree,

that example he uses is a bit dodgy but I can understand why he didn't want to write an entire DI engine for a beginners tutorial. Anyway, Like I say, I found it was an ok place to start before moving on to other stuff.

i hava a Datagrid with Checkbox as one of the columns in it. Need to trap the click event & accordingly enable/disable buttons on my WPF Page (xaml).am using MVVM architecture.

Following is the code:

<DataGrid AutoGenerateColumns="False" CanUserAddRows="False" 
                                  Name="grdRequestTemplate" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="Auto"
                                  ItemsSource="{Binding FetchTemplateList}" 
                                  SelectedItem="{Binding Path=FetchTemplateElement}" RowDetailsVisibilityMode="VisibleWhenSelected"
                                  ColumnHeaderStyle="{StaticResource columnHeaderStyle}" RowStyle="{StaticResource rowStyle}"
                                  CellStyle="{StaticResource cellStyle}" GridLinesVisibility="None"
                                  RowHeaderStyle="{StaticResource rowHeaderStyle}" IsReadOnly="False" >
                            <DataGrid.Columns>
                                <DataGridTextColumn Header="TemplateID" HeaderStyle="{StaticResource WrappedColumnHeaderStyle}" 
                                                    Visibility="Hidden" Binding="{Binding TemplateID}" MinWidth="50" />
                                <DataGridTextColumn Header="TemplateUserMappingId"  Visibility="Hidden" Binding="{Binding TemplateUserMappingId}" MinWidth="50" />
                                <DataGridCheckBoxColumn Header="#" Binding="{Binding Check}" />
                                <DataGridTemplateColumn Header="#2">
                                    <DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
                                        <DataTemplate>
                                            <CheckBox IsChecked="{Binding Path=ChkBoxClickCommand}" Checked="CheckBox_Checked" Click="CheckBox_Click" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">                                                
                                            </CheckBox>
                                        </DataTemplate>
                                    </DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
                                </DataGridTemplateColumn>
                                <DataGridTextColumn Header="User ID" HeaderStyle="{StaticResource WrappedColumnHeaderStyle}" 
                                                    Binding="{Binding UserLabelId}" MinWidth="150" IsReadOnly="True" />
                                <DataGridTextColumn Header="Template Name" HeaderStyle="{StaticResource WrappedColumnHeaderStyle}" 
                                                    Binding="{Binding Name}" Width="*"  IsReadOnly="True" />
                                <DataGridTextColumn Header="Application" HeaderStyle="{StaticResource WrappedColumnHeaderStyle}" 
                                                    Binding="{Binding TypeLabel}" MinWidth="100"  IsReadOnly="True" />
                                <DataGridTextColumn Header="Date Requested" HeaderStyle="{StaticResource WrappedColumnHeaderStyle}" 
                                                    Binding="{Binding RequestedOnDate}"  IsReadOnly="True">
                                </DataGridTextColumn>
                            </DataGrid.Columns>
                        </DataGrid>

i want to register the click event in the ViewModel.cs but how do i call the same from my xaml.cs page? what code do i need to write?

Appreciate an early response.

With Warm Regards,

Yogesh Jamkhindikar

Just a thought, have you debugged through this value change and see when it fires, handle the VM values from the change of the property.

IsChecked="{Binding Path=ChkBoxClickCommand}"

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH