How to disable automatic source updates in Silverlight
This article demonstrates how we can disable automatic source updates in Silverlight. In TwoWay bindings, when changes are made to the target, It automatically updates the source, except when we bind Text property of a TextBox. In this case, the update occurs when the TextBox loses focus. Learn how to disable automatic source updates in Silverlight? We can disable automatic source updates and update the source when we would like to.
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To disable automatic source updates, we need to set the UpdateSourceTrigger property to Explicit. We must update the source for each binding individually,
Follow below steps to update a binding:
1.First call the FrameworkElement.GetBindingExpression method of a target element, by passing in the target DependencyProperty.
2.Then use the return value to call the BindingExpression.UpdateSource method.
The following example code snippet demonstrates this process.
Here txtDemo is a TextBox with Binding set to the Test property of the TestData class. Observe that the UpdateSourceTrigger property is set to "Explicit".
<TextBox x:Name="txtDemo" Text="{Binding Test, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=Explicit}" /><Button Content="Update" Click="Button_Click" />
public class TestData
{
public String Test { get; set; }
}
TestData data;
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
data = new TestData { Test = "my Data" };
txtDemo.DataContext = data;//Set the DataContext of the TextBox to data, which is an instance of the TestData class.
}
private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
//Call the FrameworkElement.GetBindingExpression method of a target element which is "txtDemo", by passing in the target DependencyProperty that is the TextProperty of the TextBox.
BindingExpression expression = txtDemo.GetBindingExpression(TextBox.TextProperty);
MessageBox.Show("Before UpdateSource, Test = " + data.Test);
//use the return value to call the BindingExpression.UpdateSource, This updates the Text Property of the txtDemo Framework Element.
expression.UpdateSource();
MessageBox.Show("After UpdateSource, Test = " + data.Test);
}
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