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should I set all the groupboxes visible or hidden in pageload ?
I have taken grid inside the groupboxes and arranged my controls like textboxes..
If I make groupboxes visible in pageload then while debugging it is showing all the controls in Groupboxes but combo selection change event not working.
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have you put a break point in to check that the SelectionChanged Event is being triggered and passed through to the event handler?
If you don't set the vivibility explicitly in the PageLoad is the combo box working as expected?
I'm not able to reproduce your problem here at all from the information you have provided, so include the WPF where you decalre your combo box, page load event and at least one group box. also include the code for your selection chanage event handler and page load event handler.
Or send me your project via email(my profile > right click homepage >copy link location) email address is there for a short while.
modified 9-Aug-12 8:32am.
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Hi everyone,
This is Sunil here. I am trying to find a job in WPF field having 1 Years of experience. But, i have some basic knowledge of WPF, actually my field was in Win-forms. But, nowadays WPF is future oriented technology, so i want to build carrier in WPF. I have some basic knowledge in Data-binding, animation, styles and templates etc. I have to know which framework is more required by software companies in MVVM among Prism, MVVM Light, Cliburn. I have basic practical knowledge in MVVM light framework. It's very simple to implement as compare to Prism. So, friends, Please guide me which framework should i read regarding Job in a S/W company? Any other link for that?
Thanks and Regards:
Sunil Paul,
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I already answered this question here[^]. Please post your question in one forum only.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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When I change an item in an ObservableCollection, how do I update the UI?
I have an ObservableCollection of AddressEntity.
When I change an street on an item in the collection, the UI doesn't reflect it.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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The ObservableCollection effectively just updates the UI when items are added, removed, moved, etc. If you want to update the UI based on a change to the property then you have to raise the change notification on that property (via INotifyPropertyChanged).
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You mean implement INotifyPropertyChanged in the AdressEntity?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Yes. That's how WPF receives information that only a particular property has changed (don't forget that the BindingMode has to be considered here as well). The BindingMode tells WPF which direction change notification goes.
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Thats where I thought you were going.
Then I thought, right now, my entities are simply made up of auto-implemented properties. This means I have to implement each property. That's a hell of alot of code to add to each entity, especially considering my entites are going to be used in an MVC3 app as well as my WPF app. That would mean putting WPF-specific code in classes use for non-WPF platforms.
This doesn't feel right.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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How have you autogenned those properties? If it's Entity Framework for instance, it can auto gen the prop change code for you.
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No, simply
public string Caption {get; set; }
How their generated is irellevant here. The entities are in a seperate Entities project used by 2 diferent UI projects - WPF and Web.
So now we're talking about going from
public class AddressEntity : _EntityBase
{
public string Caption { get; set; }
public string Street1 { get; set; }
public string Street2 { get; set; }
public string City { get; set; }
public string State { get; set; }
public string ZipCode { get; set; }
}
to
private string _Caption = string.Empty;
public string Caption
{
get { return _Caption; }
set
{
if (_Caption != value)
{
_Caption = value;
RaisePropertyChanged("Caption");
}
}
}
.
.
.
.
}
That's a tremendous amount of code in many entities just to support WPF.
One possibility is in the WPF UI simple reload the list from data.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Kevin Marois wrote: How their generated is irellevant here
Even I beg to differ here, a good code generator is priceless. I believe EF 4 does this but I wrote my own many years ago and would not work without it!
You basic issue still exists and is one I am contemplating, UI code in your entity (model in my case) classes that is used by a non UI consumer. This is precisely what we do, the WCF and the Silverlight UI reference the same model which has fully implemented properties.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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My point was, whether generated by a tool, or typed in my me, is irellevant.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Speaking of EF - I spent some time over the weekend looking at EF, as I hadn't used it before. Seems simple, but the Entities seem heavy compared to the POCO's I'm currently using.
Also, assuming the DAL is going to be hit via a WCF service, would you use EF entities to transports the data? This really seeme smore suited to POCO's.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I haven't used EF, or even looked at it. I went on the feedback over the last few years that it was buggy and could be difficult to use. With the release of v4 apparently they have improved to a usable product, however I am reluctant to throw away my current framework and I have no intention of re factoring 13 projects currently in production or UAT!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Kevin Marois wrote: That's a tremendous amount of code in many entities just to support WPF.
One possibility is in the WPF UI simple reload the list from data.
As Pete mentioned, your AddressEntity needs to implement INotifyPropertyChanged. Well, actually, I hope you have all that encapsulated in a base class and you just derive everything from ObservableObject or whatever  .
In regards to your idea of reloading the list, that'll only work on the surface level, but it'll break a LOT of things. Lets say you have a collection tied to a ListBox or whatever and the user has Item5 selected and clicks the edit button and changes the name to Item5a. The way you have it now, the ListBox will continue to display Item5 because INotifyPropertyChanged was not implemented. So you'd try to refresh the entire list, now you'll run into an issue where Item5a has lost its selection, the h & v scroll positions will be lost as well, etc. Not a good UI when that happens .
Anyways... if you aren't using EF, how many properties are we talking about? 5, 10, 50, 100?
I think if it was 5 to 10, I would just hand job it with c&p... but if it started to get closer to 50 or 100 or more, I would probably just write a quick & dirty C# app that loaded up your .cs file and simply parsed each line. The return type would be the 2nd value and the property name would be the 3rd value. Your app can then auto-gen all the WPF code. Probably a 10 to 20 minute job tops to whip out a C# app that does that.
Nothing wrong with a non WPF app using the code since the PropertyChanged event will be null, your handler will just return.
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I know all this, and I considered adding in the RaisePropertyChanged. Is just seems out of place for entities. In my mind, entities simply transport data to & fro - not worry about updating the UI.
I have also been considering creating a property generator tool. Pop it off the menu, fill it out, and it adds a new property to your class. Would have options including RaisePropertyChanged etc.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Kevin Marois wrote: In my mind, entities simply transport data to & fro - not worry about updating the UI
This is the issue I am currently debating, the alternative seems to be to have yet another set of entities that extend the POCO transport objects with the UI functionality and additional properties.
You then need to translate between the 2 object types etc. etc. One of our senior devs has experience with EF4 and is recommending that and I know some here approve of it!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Nothing wrong with your BOs/DAL supporting INPC and INCC. That's why EF supports it out of the box. Even before EF, I always had my BOs and DALs implement INPC and INCC.
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Well, that's on opinion. Not that it's wrong, but I'm still on the fence.
Again, INPC is a WPF thing. Suppose I do implement this in my Entities (and I AM leaning that way) and then a year from now the WPF UI is deprecated. For the ASP UI, INPC would neverbe used, and if the WPF app was shelved, then is really is not used. Do I then go back through all the entities and refacor them back to how they are now?
If so, then that means I would be making that change now to address a 'shortcoming' in WPF, and by definition, should find an alternative now.
Maybe I'm overthinking it, but again, it feels wrong somehow.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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If you use a code generator, you'd just regenerate them. If you don't use a code generator, you would just change your "ObservableObject" base class. Granted, all your entities would still have the if (blah != value) RaisePropertyChangedEvent(), but that function wouldn't do anything. Heck, you could even do something clever like (and this is just psuedo-code to give you the idea):
public string SomeProp
{
get { return base.GetProp("SomeProp"); }
set { base.SetProp("SomeProp", value); }
}
obviously the base class will store a dictionary of string <-> objects, or whatever.
in base.SetProp() you would do something like (whilst supporting WPF) again psuedo code:
void SetProp(string propName, object value)
{
object o;
_dict.LookUpObject();
if ((o as IComparable).CompareTo(value) != 0)
{
_dict.UpdateValue()
RaisePropertyChanged(propName);
}
}
then if you remove WPF support down the road, you would just change this function and get rid of RaisePropertyChanged() and remove the INPC implementation.
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Ok, i read this earlier, and then again now.
I like the idea, primarily becuase 1) only changed properties are updated, and 2) easy to take out.
While I get the concept, I could a bit of help with the code:
When you say "the base class will store a dictionary of string <-> objects, or whatever.", can you explain that a bit? Do you mean storing a dictionary of property names? Not sure I get how to code this.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Yes, a dictionary of propertyName <-> object. The setters will be a simple search and replace... but the getter, you'd have to typecase the result before return, so a prop would go from:
public string Caption { get; set; }
public string Caption
{
get { return (string)base.GetProp("Caption"); }
set { base.SetProp("Caption", value); }
}
the dictionary key will be Caption in this case and the value would be value. Sort of the same concept as dependency properties.
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Alternatively, if you don't want to pollute this model, remember that the full pattern is called MVVM. The thing is, you are binding directly to your model here and that's not always the done thing. What I would do, if I were you, would be introduce a ViewModel that encapsulates the part of the AddressEntity that you are interested in.
There are a few reasons that I would do this, but one of the most basic ones is that your caption is unconstrained by the model. Now suppose that you want to guarantee that the user cannot submit a blank caption, then you simply put validation on your VM. As I don't know what your validation requirements are here, I would advise you to read up on validating data entries in MVVM.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: What I would do, if I were you, would be introduce a ViewModel that encapsulates
the part of the AddressEntity that you are interested in.
I don't get it.
All that I have is a list of addresses. When Edit is clicked, the SelectedAddress is passed to another dialog for editing. When the dialog closes, I update the item in the list from the selected address (now updated and returned from the edit dialog).
The list is not refreshed. The model's have nothing to do with this, IMHO.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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