WPF MVVM Radio buttons on ItemsControl

Question

I\'ve bound enums to radio buttons before, and I generally understand how it works. I used the alternate implementation from this question: How to bind RadioButtons to an e

Answer 1

As far as I know, there's no good way to do this with a MultiBinding, although you initially think there would be. Since you can't bind the ConverterParameter, your ConvertBack implementation doesn't have the information it needs.

What I have done is created a separate EnumModel class solely for the purpose of binding an enum to radio buttons. Use a converter on the ItemsSource property and then you're binding to an EnumModel. The EnumModel is just a forwarder object to make binding possible. It holds one possible value of the enum and a reference to the viewmodel so it can translate a property on the viewmodel to and from a boolean.

Here's an untested but generic version:

The converter:

public class ToEnumModelsConverter : IValueConverter
{
    public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
    {
        var viewmodel = value;
        var prop = viewmodel.GetType().GetProperty(parameter as string);

        List enumModels = new List();

        foreach(var enumValue in Enum.GetValues(prop.PropertyType))
        {
            var enumModel = new EnumModel(enumValue, viewmodel, prop);
            enumModels.Add(enumModel);
        }

        return enumModels;
    }

    public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

The EnumModel:

public class EnumModel : INPC
{
    object enumValue;
    INotifyPropertyChanged viewmodel;
    PropertyInfo property;

    public EnumModel(object enumValue, object viewmodel, PropertyInfo property)
    {
        this.enumValue = enumValue;
        this.viewmodel = viewmodel as INotifyPropertyChanged;
        this.property = property;

        this.viewmodel.PropertyChanged += new PropertyChangedEventHandler(viewmodel_PropertyChanged);
    }

    void viewmodel_PropertyChanged(object sender, PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.PropertyName == property.Name)
        {
            OnPropertyChanged("IsChecked");
        }
    }

    public bool IsChecked
    {
        get
        {
            return property.GetValue(viewmodel, null).Equals(enumValue);
        }
        set
        {
            if (value)
            {
                property.SetValue(viewmodel, enumValue, null);
            }
        }
    }
}

For a code sample that I know works (but it's still quite unpolished - WIP!), you can see http://code.google.com/p/pdx/source/browse/trunk/PDX/PDX/Toolkit/EnumControl.xaml.cs. This only works within the context of my library, but it demonstrates setting the Name of the EnumModel based on the DescriptionAttribute, which might be useful to you.