WPF

public string Caption {get; set; }

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; }
}

private string _Caption = string.Empty;
public string Caption 
{
    get { return _Caption; }
    set
    {
        if (_Caption != value)
        {
            _Caption = value;
            RaisePropertyChanged("Caption");
        }
    }
}

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Kevin Marois wrote:

How their generated is irellevant here

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.

Kevin Marois wrote:

In my mind, entities simply transport data to & fro - not worry about updating the UI

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.

using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Reflection;

namespace ModbusProtocol {

   //---------------------------------------------
   // Class for capturing serial port statistics.
   //---------------------------------------------
   public class ComPortStats : INotifyPropertyChanged {

      public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

      private PropertyInfo[] _pInfo;

      //-----------------------------------------------
      // Stats.
      //-----------------------------------------------
      public int WriteRequests { get; set; }
      public int Writes { get; set; }
      public long BytesWritten { get; set; }
      public int WriteErrors { get; set; }

      public int ReadRequests { get; set; }
      public int Reads { get; set; }
      public long BytesRead { get; set; }
      public int ReadNoReply { get; set; }
      public int ReadTimeouts { get; set; }
      public int ReadErrors { get; set; }

      // Updated from FunctionBase.
      public int CRCReadErrors { get; set; }

      //---------------------------------------------
      // Constructor.
      //---------------------------------------------
      public ComPortStats() {

         // Retrieve property names.
         Type objectType = this.GetType();

         _pInfo = objectType.GetProperties(
            BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance );
      }

      //---------------------------------------------
      // Notify subscribers that "all" changed.
      //---------------------------------------------
      public void Notify() {

         foreach ( PropertyInfo p in _pInfo ) {

            OnPropertyChanged( p.Name );

         }  // end foreach.
      }

      //---------------------------------------------
      // Property changed event handler / notification.
      //---------------------------------------------
      protected void OnPropertyChanged( string name ) {

         if ( PropertyChanged != null ) {
            PropertyChanged( this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs( name ) );
         }
      }

   }  // end class.

}  // end namespace.

protected void OnPropertyChanged(string name)
{
  PropertyChangedEventHandler handler = PropertyChanged;
  if (handler != null)
  {
    handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(name));
  }
}