How to avoid implementing INotifyPropertyChanged manually

Question

Is there some way to avoid this. I have a lot of classes that are bound to DataGridViews and they are just simple collection of properties with default getter and setter. So

Answer 1

It depends; you could use PostSharp to write such an attribute that is re-written by the weaver; however, I would be tempted to just do it manually - perhaps using a common method for handling the data updates, i.e.

private string name;
public string Name {
    get { return name; }
    set { Notify.SetField(ref name, value, PropertyChanged, this, "Name"); }
}

with:

public static class Notify {
    public static bool SetField(ref T field, T value,
         PropertyChangedEventHandler handler, object sender, string propertyName)
    {
        if(!EqualityComparer.Default.Equals(field,value)) {
            field = value;
            if(handler!=null) {
                handler(sender, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
            }
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
}