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Written by: Stanko Milosev

Category: WPF

Published: 08 April 2014

Last Updated: 06 April 2022

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First create dictionary as I explained here.
In my case I've created TriggersDictionary.xaml, so my main window XAML looks like this:

<Window x:Class="PlayingWithResource.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">
    
        <Window.Resources>
            <ResourceDictionary>
                <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                    <ResourceDictionary
                      Source= "TriggersDictionary.xaml">
                    </ResourceDictionary>
                </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
            </ResourceDictionary>
        </Window.Resources>
        <Grid>

        <Rectangle Style="{StaticResource styleWithTrigger}"></Rectangle>

    </Grid>
</Window>

My style (TriggersDictionary.xaml)

<ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
                    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">

    <Style x:Key="styleWithTrigger" TargetType="Rectangle">
        <Setter Property="Fill" Value="LightGreen" />
        <Style.Triggers>
            <Trigger Property="IsMouseOver" Value="True">
                <Setter Property="Fill" Value="Red" />
            </Trigger>
        </Style.Triggers>
    </Style>

</ResourceDictionary>

Here you can see property - this is event which will be executed as well as target type (in my case rectangle)
Example project you can download from here, and this article I wrote using this page.

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2014-06-16 Update Properties which are supported for trigger, for rectangle, for example you can see here.

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Written by: Stanko Milosev

Category: WPF

Published: 02 April 2014

Last Updated: 30 November -0001

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I was playing with TabControl, and I tried to implement SelectionChange event of TabControl.

So I did something like this:

XAML:

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication20.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>
        <TabControl SelectionChanged="TabControl_SelectionChanged">
            <TabItem Header="Test1"></TabItem>
            <TabItem Header="Test2"></TabItem>
        </TabControl>
    </Grid>
</Window>

Code behind:

private void TabControl_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
  MessageBox.Show("test");
}

With that code I was receiving error:

Dispatcher processing has been suspended, but messages are still being processed.

Solution:

private void TabControl_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
  Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(DispatcherPriority.Normal, new Action(this.MyTest));
}

private void MyTest()
{
  MessageBox.Show("test");
}

It seems that problem is in multi thread... Because for example code like this:

private void TabControl_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
  // ... Get TabControl reference.
  var item = sender as TabControl;
  // ... Set Title to selected tab header.
  var selected = item.SelectedItem as TabItem;
  this.Title = selected.Header.ToString();
}

Works without problem.

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Written by: Stanko Milosev

Category: WPF

Published: 01 April 2014

Last Updated: 06 April 2022

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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.

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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...

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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.