Saturday 23 November 2013

PropertyListener

Need to react to a property changing but the control doesn’t expose the event?  No problem, you can use the PropertyListener:

using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;

namespace Utilities
{
public class PropertyListener
{
/// <summary>
/// Listens for changes to dependency properties on a given FrameworkElement calls a callback on property change.
/// Usage example: PropertyListener.ListenForChange("IsBusy", BusyIndicator, (d,e) => DoStuff())
/// (may cause memory leaks)
/// </summary>
public void ListenForChange(string propertyName, FrameworkElement element, PropertyChangedCallback callback)
{
var b = new Binding(propertyName) { Source = element };
var prop = DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached(
"ListenAttached" + propertyName,
typeof(object),
typeof(Control),
new PropertyMetadata(callback));
element.SetBinding(prop, b);
}
}
}

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