After changing global bool, IsEnabled property is not updating

xtr33me

I am using WPF .Net 4.0 and I have a Window that populates a number of controls with data from a file. These are all within a DockingManager ContentControl which I then have its IsEnabled property bound to a global boolean variable. Now when the window first loads, it is correctly enabled or disabled based on what default value I set to it. However when I select "Edit Network" from my context menu, I update the global bool, which does update when I put a breakpoint, but the ContentControls IsEnabled property does not get set. Any ideas as to why this may be? Is there a view update I need to call or something?

    private Boolean bNetIDEnabled = false;
    public Boolean NetEnabled
    {
        get { return bNetIDEnabled; }
        set { bNetIDEnabled = value; }
    }

    private void HandleEditNetwork(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        NetEnabled = true;
    }

Pete OHanlon

You actually need to raise a notification to tell the binding object that the property has changed. This relies on you using the INotifyPropertyChanged interface and raising a PropertyChanged event naming the NetEnabled property.

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BechBej

OK You have two ways to do that, you either implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface or simply change this CLR property to dependency property to let wpf handle notification

xtr33me

Thanks for the help!

xtr33me

Thanks for the help! Going to go try this out now.

Pete OHanlon

You are welcome. Good luck.

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