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Reagrding the Persistance of an radio buttion selection.

10-Mar-14 17:11

I'm creating a search control that has a label, a combobox, and a button. The button will do a requery for the combobox's list items.

I created DP's for the ComboBox's ItemSource and SelectedItem properties.

The control will be used like:

<my:searchControl Grid.Row="0"
                  ComboItemSource="{Binding Items}"
                  ComboSelectedItem="{Binding Selected}"
                  CaptionText="Look For"\>

Everything is working fine so far.

What do I do about the button's click event? I would want to handle the requery buttons's click in the ViewModel the control is used in:

<my:searchControl Grid.Row="0"
                  ComboItemSource="{Binding Items}"
                  ComboSelectedItem="{Binding Selected}"
                  CaptionText="Look For"\>

    <my:searchControl>
        <i:Interaction.Triggers>
            <i:EventTrigger EventName="ButtonClicked"/>
        </i:Interaction.Triggers>
    </my:searchControl>

Is this the right approach?

Thanks

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

pradeep surya10-Mar-14 7:36

pradeep surya

10-Mar-14 7:36

Hi,

In wpf, MVVM Pattern i face the following issue. Did anyone notice this any time?

In page-1(XAML) there are 3 radio button of same group.
and in the corresponding View Model(Page-1 VM) in One method(eg: CreateXYZView()) in which i am instantiating another view(Page -2).
And in the page-2, i have the same set of radio buttons.

Now i have selected one radio button in page-1. And done some action which triggers the method(CreateXYZView()) in the Page -1 VM, which internally creates page-2.

So now my radio button selection in the page-1 is CLEARED(vanished).
Can anyone let me know the reason?

Thanks in Advance.

Pradeep Chenna.

DomainServices adn [RequiresRoles()]

picasso29-Mar-14 19:14

picasso2

9-Mar-14 19:14

I am using a  [RequiresRole("MANAGERS")] in my domainServices to restrict the use of a RIA services.  Users are configured via the ASPNET Web administrative tool.
 
When publish the website, the authentication does not work.  I can verify that access to the DB and all files work fine by just removing the [RequiresRole("MANAGERS")] statement

However, If I run the project in debug mode (VS2010) then it works as expected.

May be I am missing something in the web.config.  Any other files I need to copy from my project to the website? Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

Re: DomainServices adn [RequiresRoles()]

Richard MacCutchan9-Mar-14 22:35

Richard MacCutchan

9-Mar-14 22:35

Does this have anything to do with Silverlight or WPF?

Re: DomainServices adn [RequiresRoles()]

picasso210-Mar-14 11:55

picasso2

10-Mar-14 11:55

I thinks so,…It is a silverlight application that uses domainservies and RIA!!!!
In any case, it is always nicer to refrain making comments if there is no benefit to it. There are always nicer users willing to help.

Re: DomainServices adn [RequiresRoles()]

Richard MacCutchan10-Mar-14 22:16

Richard MacCutchan

10-Mar-14 22:16

picasso2 wrote:
I thinks so

So you don't actually know then? And the only technology you have mentioned in your question is ASPNET(sic) Web administrative tool.. Perhaps you should add more detail about the actual problem, and explain what it has to do with Silverlight or WPF.

Help on drawing a line WPF

abollmeyer9-Mar-14 2:46

abollmeyer

9-Mar-14 2:46

Ok, so I have this code:

<pre>foreach (var item in getOriginalLoan)
            {
                if (index < getOriginalLoan.Count)
                {
                    x1 = (getOriginalLoan[index - 1].paymentNumber * 670 / 360) + 70;
                    y1 = 700 - (getOriginalLoan[index - 1].endingBalance * 600 / getOriginalLoan[0].endingBalance);
                    x2 = (getOriginalLoan[index - 1].paymentNumber * 670 / 360) + 70;
                    y2 = 700 - (getOriginalLoan[index - 1].endingBalance * 600 / getOriginalLoan[0].endingBalance);

                    if (y2 <= 600)
                    {
                        graphCanvas.Children.Add(new Line
                        {
                            X1 = x1 + 1,
                            Y1 = y1 + 0,
                            X2 = x2 + 0,
                            Y2 = y2 + 0,
                            Stroke = Brushes.Red
                        });
                    }

                    index++;
                }

            }

Twice in my code. One draws a blue line (which works, exact same code but different collection), and this one draws a yellow line. However, as per my code, it WILL draw the line (although a dotted line, which as actually kind of a cool effect for what I'm going for), but only when I add the +1 to x1.

I have verified all my data is being read. Why is this happening? Thanks.

display same result in different units: U.S. v.s. Metric

Member 97807175-Mar-14 10:43

Member 9780717

5-Mar-14 10:43

I have an xsd defined dataset which I use as the data class to send data back and forth between presentation layer and model/controller layer. For the same result, based on user selection of unit: U.S. v.s. Metric, I need to display differently. I am thinking to use xslt for the transformation, any suggestion? the software is an engineering calculator written in c# and used WPF. I have about 1000 data points in each calculation result, the original result is in U.S. units, if user select Metric, I need to flip to metric unit, but don't need to do the calculation again.

Re: display same result in different units: U.S. v.s. Metric

Pete O'Hanlon5-Mar-14 10:51

Pete O'Hanlon

5-Mar-14 10:51

It really depends on how you want to display your data. Is it going to change frequently or are you just going to get it once and display it (switching backwards and forwards between the Metric/US version as appropriate). If it's just going to be a one off retrieval of the data and you don't need high resolution of your data, you could simply bind the data directly to the UI and use a value converter (a class that implements IValueConverter) to convert the data to US units if necessary, or just return the raw data if it's Metric.

Re: display same result in different units: U.S. v.s. Metric

Member 97807175-Mar-14 13:05

Member 9780717

5-Mar-14 13:05

Thanks, Peter,
My dataset is in U.S unit, if user select Metric, I will capture metric input and converted to U.S. units and populate the dataset. The U.S. dataset is passed to model/controller to get the ouptput dataset also in U.S units, before display the result dataset back, if it is in Metric, I need to convert to metric. Currently the dataset is bound to WPF controls, directly e.g. <datagrid> and in U.S unit alone. I am going to look into ValueConverter.

Re: display same result in different units: U.S. v.s. Metric

SledgeHammer015-Mar-14 13:47

SledgeHammer01

5-Mar-14 13:47

If you convert them yourself, you'll need to convert all of them. You really only care about the ones the user is looking at. If you have 100,000 items and the user only looks at 100, there is no need to do the computations to convert the rest. The IValueConverter will accomplish this for you. It'll only call in to do the conversion on whats needed by the UI. Small optimization, but can make a huge difference in performance.

WPF Detect Property Change In Entity In VM

Kevin Marois4-Mar-14 7:46

4-Mar-14 7:46

I have a ViewModel that contains a CompanyEntity. In the CompanyEntity is a property called IsActive. This property raises NotifyPropertyChanged. The property is bound to a checkbox in the UI.

What I'd like is to somehow execute a method in the VM when the user changes the IsActive property via the checkbox.

How do I do this?

Thanks

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

Pete O'Hanlon4-Mar-14 8:16

Pete O'Hanlon

4-Mar-14 8:16

There's a couple of ways you could do this. One way is to hook into the property itself and call the method when you're changing the value. The other way is to use RX to observe the property and call the method whenever the property changes. There's a pretty decent primer here[^] that should give you a heads up.

Kevin Marois11-Mar-14 6:15

11-Mar-14 6:15

Pete,

Can you explain what you mean by 'Hook into the property'?

Thanks

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

Pete O'Hanlon11-Mar-14 6:20

Pete O'Hanlon

11-Mar-14 6:20

It's just a case of adding a piece of logic into your property setter and calling your method if the value has changed.

Matt T Heffron4-Mar-14 8:37

4-Mar-14 8:37

I'd suggest looking into the PropertyObserver class from Josh Smith's MVVM Foundation library[^].
This will let you watch for the NotifyPropertyChanged event.

Specific info at: One way to avoid messy PropertyChanged event handling[^]

Kevin Marois11-Mar-14 5:50

11-Mar-14 5:50

Well I implemented this and it doesn't work. I registered the property, compiled, and ran it. Nothing happens. The method I registered doesn't get called. The property IS changed, but the callback doesn't get called.

Too bad, it looked promising.

[UPDATE]

So here's what I just found....

I have a GridView bound to a list of JobAssignmentEntities and who's SelectedItem is bound to a property in my VM called SelectedJobAssignment.

In the CTOR of the VM I did

propertyObserver = new PropertyObserver<JobAssignmentHeaderEntity>(this.SelectedJobAssignment)
                        .RegisterHandler(n => n.PhaseStart, n => this.phaseStartChanged(n));

In order to register it the property must not be null, because of a null ref check in the register method.

So I moved the block above inside the SelectedJobAssignment's Getter and it works.

sooo, I will need to find a way to register EACH time the SelectedJobAssignment is set.

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

modified 11-Mar-14 11:59am.

Matt T Heffron11-Mar-14 7:51

11-Mar-14 7:51

Yes, this makes sense.
The PropertyObserver constructor attaches to the current value (this.SelectedJobAssignment) of the passed property.
It does not automatically track if that property itself changes. (I.e., it doesn't notice if this.SelectedJobAssignment changes)
The registration tracks if the referenced property of that value changes. (I.e., it only notices if this.SelectedJobAssignment.PhaseStart changes)

Matt T Heffron11-Mar-14 7:53

11-Mar-14 7:53

Why not move it into the SelectedJobAssignment's Setter ?

Kevin Marois11-Mar-14 8:00

11-Mar-14 8:00

In ref to this and your prior posting....

I see how it works, it just looks kludgy.

First, I could see something like

propertyObserver.Register(typeof(theType), x => x.Property, MyHandler());

this way you can register multiple type, and only need to have this on one place.

Having to re-register each time the property changes is ugly

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

Matt T Heffron11-Mar-14 8:13

11-Mar-14 8:13

You just use a different property observer.
One for "the class" that checks when specific properties are changed.
In the handlers for that observers, you register handlers for the properties on the values of the "properties of the class".
This way the PropertyObserver handles the general case.

Kevin Marois11-Mar-14 8:18

11-Mar-14 8:18

Ya I know. THe idea is great, just not the cleanest implementation.

If it's not broken, fix it until it is