WPF: PropertyChangedCallback triggered only once

Question

I have a user control, which exposes a DependencyProperty called VisibileItems Every time that property gets updated, i need to trigger another event. To achieve that, i ad

Answer 1

You might be having an issue where the contents of the collection is changing but not the actual instance. in this case you'll want to use an ObservableCollection and do something like this:

public static readonly DependencyProperty VisibleItemsProperty =
    DependencyProperty.Register(
    "VisibleItems",
    typeof(IList),
    typeof(MyFilterList),
    new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(null, FrameworkPropertyMetadataOptions.AffectsRender, new PropertyChangedCallback(VisibleItemsChanged)));

    private static void VisibleItemsChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        var myList = d as MyFilterList;
        if (myList == null) return;

        myList.OnVisibleItemsChanged(e.NewValue as IList, e.OldValue as IList);
    }

    protected virtual void OnVisibleItemsChanged(IList newValue, IList oldValue)
    {
        var oldCollection = oldValue as INotifyCollectionChanged;
        if (oldCollection != null)
        {
            oldCollection.CollectionChanged -= VisibleItems_CollectionChanged;
        }
        var newCollection = newValue as INotifyCollectionChanged;
        if (newCollection != null)
        {
            newCollection.CollectionChanged += VisibleItems_CollectionChanged;
        }
    }