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MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF

You're reading from   MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF If you're using Silverlight and WPF, then employing the MVVM pattern can make a powerful difference to your projects, reducing code and bugs in one. This book is an invaluable resource for serious developers.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849683425
Length 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Presentation Patterns FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to MVVM 3. Northwind – Foundations 4. Northwind—Services and Persistence Ignorance 5. Northwind—Commands and User Inputs 6. Northwind—Hierarchical View Model and IoC 7. Dialogs and MVVM 8. Workflow-based MVVM Applications 9. Validation 10. Using Non-MVVM Third-party Controls 11. MVVM Application Performance MVVM Frameworks
Binding at a Glance Index

Using binding reflector


Although attached behaviors seem to solve the limitation of binding to a binding target that isn't a dependency property, the approach can be less appealing if there are a large number of properties that we need to bind to. If we are using attached behaviors then we need to define an attached behavior for each property for each type of control we are using in our application. This can end up being a lot of work if we are using a lot of third-party controls and it would be nice if there was a simpler approach that required less coding and hence less maintenance. Fortunately, the binding reflector technique can come to our rescue.

We know the requirement that a binding target has to be DependencyProperty but the requirements for binding source are not so strict. A binding source can simply be a Plain Old CLR property. In the binding reflector technique, we capitalize on this flexibility. Using this approach, binding reflector is FrameworkElement that is not available...

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