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Data Binding on XamComboEditor?

Travis posted over 13 years ago

Alrighty, I've been beating my head against a wall here for some time trying to figure out how to do something that, to me at least, should be very simple.

I have a XamComboEditor that I want to function as a lookup, for lack of a better term. I need to figure out how I can pass along a foreign key value (seems like there should be a ValueMemberPath property and a Value property to accomplish what I'm after) to the XamComboEditor and get that value to change the SelectedItem and the display text appropriately. Consequently, when the user changes their selection in the XamComboEditor, I need to have that change cascade back to the field I used as the foreign key.

Simplified scenario:

An Customers table with a StateID field that references the States table that also contains a StateID field and a Name.

I want to be able to bind the StateID field from the Customers table to the StateID field in my States list which I would use as the ItemsSource property for the XamComboEditor and have the SelectedItem change appropriately.

My frustration may be due to simply not understanding Silverlight data binding well enough yet, but to date, the only way I have found to accomplish this it to perform a search of my States list to find the appropriate State item and set that as the SelectedItem programmatically. That's not so bad when you only have one XamComboEditor, but as the number of XamComboEditors increases, this is going to quickly become a pain point. I'm wondering if there's a better way for me to do this? Or will I always be stuck programmatically doing things this way for lookups?

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Offline Konstantin Koynov posted over 13 years ago

Hi,

I couldn't quite catch what you're trying to achieve. However if you need SelectedValuePath and you're using lots of XamComboEditors you could extend the XamComboEditor and add these two properties. It should look something like the following:

public class XamComboEditorEx : XamComboEditor
{
    public XamComboEditorEx() : base()
    {
        this.SelectionChanged += combo_SelectionChanged;
    }

    public string SelectedValuePath
    {
        get { return (string)GetValue(SelectedValuePathProperty); }
        set { SetValue(SelectedValuePathProperty, value); }
    }

    public static readonly DependencyProperty SelectedValuePathProperty =
        DependencyProperty.Register("SelectedValuePath", typeof(string), typeof(XamComboEditorEx),
        new PropertyMetadata(new PropertyChangedCallback(SelectedValuePath_Changed)));

    public object SelectedValue
    {
        get { return (object)GetValue(SelectedValueProperty); }
        set { SetValue(SelectedValueProperty, value); }
    }

    public static readonly DependencyProperty SelectedValueProperty =
        DependencyProperty.Register("SelectedValue", typeof(object), typeof(XamComboEditorEx), null);

    private static void SelectedValuePath_Changed(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        var combo = d as XamComboEditorEx;
        if (combo != null)
        {
            combo.ResetSelectedValue();
        }
    }

    static void combo_SelectionChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var combo = sender as XamComboEditorEx;
        if (combo != null)
            combo.ResetSelectedValue();
    }

    private void ResetSelectedValue()
    {
        if (this.SelectedItem != null)
            this.SelectedValue = this.SelectedItem.GetType().GetProperty(this.SelectedValuePath).GetValue(this.SelectedItem, null);
    }
}

HTH,

XamComboEditorEx.zip

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Travis posted over 13 years ago in reply to Konstantin Koynov

Yeah, sorry about the confusion. I'm kind of new to the Silverlight arena and was looking for the way we used to do things in some of the older Infragistics WinForms controls for combo editors. Basically being able to set a DisplayMember and ValueMember property on the ComboEditor, set the DataSource for it and be able to bind the Value property to some field.

Anyway, I'll try adding what you've suggested and see if that works for me.

As a suggestion, though, since this seems to be a common occurence in business applications and the code doesn't look too bad, maybe you guys would consider including it as part of the standard feature for the XamComboEditor in the Silverlight control suite?
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[Infragistics] Elena posted over 13 years ago in reply to Travis

Hi,

We are currently working on solving your issue and by now I have sent your request about adding the new properties directly to our product management team.

Our product team chooses new feature requests for development based on popular feedback from our customer base. Infragistics continues to monitor application development for all of our products, so as trends appear in requested features, we can plan accordingly.

We value your input, and our philosophy is to enhance our toolset based on customer feedback. If your feature is chosen for development, you will be notified at that time. Your reference number for this feature request is FR13268.

If you would like to follow up on your feature request at a later point, you may contact Developer Support management via email. Please include the reference number of your feature request in the subject and body of your email message. You can reach Developer Support management through the following email address: dsmanager@infragistics.com

Thank you for your request.
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Offline Konstantin Koynov posted over 13 years ago in reply to [Infragistics] Elena

Hi,

here is the code that should work both ways:

public class XamComboEditorEx : XamComboEditor
{
    public XamComboEditorEx()
        : base()
    {
        this.SelectionChanged += combo_SelectionChanged;
    }

    #region SelectedValuePath
    public string SelectedValuePath
    {
        get { return (string)GetValue(SelectedValuePathProperty); }
        set { SetValue(SelectedValuePathProperty, value); }
    }

    public static readonly DependencyProperty SelectedValuePathProperty =
        DependencyProperty.Register("SelectedValuePath", typeof(string), typeof(XamComboEditorEx),
        new PropertyMetadata(new PropertyChangedCallback(SelectedValuePath_Changed)));

    private static void SelectedValuePath_Changed(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        var combo = d as XamComboEditorEx;
        if (combo != null)
        {
            combo.ResetSelectedValue();
        }
    }
    #endregion //SelectedValuePath

    #region SelectedValue
    public object SelectedValue
    {
        get { return (object)GetValue(SelectedValueProperty); }
        set
        {
            var q = (from item in Items
                        where item.Data.GetType().GetProperty(SelectedValuePath).GetValue(item.Data, null).Equals(value)
                        select item).FirstOrDefault();

            if (q == null)
                this.SelectedItem = null;
            else
                this.SelectedItem = q.Data;
        }
    }

    public static readonly DependencyProperty SelectedValueProperty =
        DependencyProperty.Register("SelectedValue", typeof(object), typeof(XamComboEditorEx), null); 
    #endregion //SelectedValue

    static void combo_SelectionChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var combo = sender as XamComboEditorEx;
        if (combo != null)
            combo.ResetSelectedValue();
    }

    private void ResetSelectedValue()
    {
        if (this.SelectedItem != null && this.SelectedItem.GetType().GetProperty(this.SelectedValuePath) != null)
        {
            var propInfo = this.SelectedItem.GetType().GetProperty(this.SelectedValuePath);
                this.SetSelectedValueSilently(propInfo.GetValue(this.SelectedItem, null));
        }
        else
            this.SetSelectedValueSilently(null);

    }

    private void SetSelectedValueSilently(object value)
    {
        this.SetValue(XamComboEditorEx.SelectedValueProperty, value);
    }
}