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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation Build responsive UIs for desktop applications with WPF

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838643416
Length 626 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sheridan Yuen Sheridan Yuen
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Preface 1. A Smarter Way of Working with WPF 2. Debugging WPF Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Writing Custom Application Frameworks 4. Becoming Proficient with Data Binding 5. Using the Right Controls for the Job 6. Adapting the Built-In Controls 7. Mastering Practical Animations 8. Creating Visually Appealing User Interfaces 9. Implementing Responsive Data Validation 10. Completing that Great User Experience 11. Improving Application Performance 12. Deploying Your Masterpiece Application 13. What Next? 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Incorporating multiple validation techniques

Now that we've had a good look at the two validation interfaces, the data annotation attributes and the ability to validate with different levels, let's take a look at how we can amalgamate these different techniques.

Let's create a BaseNotifyValidationModelExtended class by copying what we have in our BaseNotifyValidationModel class, and incorporating these following new additions. First, we need to add some extra using directives to the ones used in the previous implementation:

using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using CompanyName.ApplicationName.DataModels.Enums;

Next, we need to add our validationLevel field:

private ValidationLevel validationLevel = ValidationLevel.Full;

We need to add a constructor, in which we attach the ExternalErrors_CollectionChanged event handler to the CollectionChanged event of the ExternalErrors collection property, as we did earlier:

protected BaseNotifyValidationModelExtended...
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