Upgrading to .NET 4.5: An ItemsControl is inconsistent with its items source

Question

I\'m building an application, which uses many ItemControls(datagrids and listviews). In order to easily update these lists from background threads I used this extension to O

Answer 1

To summarize this topic, this AsyncObservableCollection works with .NET 4 and .NET 4.5 WPF apps.

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Linq;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Threading;

namespace WpfAsyncCollection
{
    public class AsyncObservableCollection : ObservableCollection
    {
        public override event NotifyCollectionChangedEventHandler CollectionChanged;
        private static object _syncLock = new object();

        public AsyncObservableCollection()
        {
            enableCollectionSynchronization(this, _syncLock);
        }

        protected override void OnCollectionChanged(NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            using (BlockReentrancy())
            {
                var eh = CollectionChanged;
                if (eh == null) return;

                var dispatcher = (from NotifyCollectionChangedEventHandler nh in eh.GetInvocationList()
                                  let dpo = nh.Target as DispatcherObject
                                  where dpo != null
                                  select dpo.Dispatcher).FirstOrDefault();

                if (dispatcher != null && dispatcher.CheckAccess() == false)
                {
                    dispatcher.Invoke(DispatcherPriority.DataBind, (Action)(() => OnCollectionChanged(e)));
                }
                else
                {
                    foreach (NotifyCollectionChangedEventHandler nh in eh.GetInvocationList())
                        nh.Invoke(this, e);
                }
            }
        }

        private static void enableCollectionSynchronization(IEnumerable collection, object lockObject)
        {
            var method = typeof(BindingOperations).GetMethod("EnableCollectionSynchronization", 
                                    new Type[] { typeof(IEnumerable), typeof(object) });
            if (method != null)
            {
                // It's .NET 4.5
                method.Invoke(null, new object[] { collection, lockObject });
            }
        }
    }
}