Pause the Updates to DataGrid of bound ObservableCollection

Question

Is there a way to pause the NotifyCollectionChanged event of an ObservableCollection? I thought something like the following:

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Answer 1

If you do not want to loose any notifications a temporary storage might work, the following might work but is untested:

public class PausibleObservableCollection<T> : ObservableCollection<T>
{
    private readonly Queue<NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs> _notificationQueue
        = new Queue<NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs>();

    private bool _isBindingPaused = false;
    public bool IsBindingPaused
    {
        get { return _isBindingPaused; }
        set
        {
            _isBindingPaused = value;
            if (value == false)
            {
                while (_notificationQueue.Count > 0)
                {
                    OnCollectionChanged(_notificationQueue.Dequeue());
                }
            }
        }
    }

    protected override void OnCollectionChanged(NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!IsBindingPaused)
            base.OnCollectionChanged(e);
        else
            _notificationQueue.Enqueue(e);
    }
}

This should push every change that happens while the collection is paused into a queue, which then is emptied once the collection is set to resume.

Answer 2

To go along with @H.B's answer (I was testing while he/she posted) - you can pass the NotifyCollectionChangedAction.Reset Change Action as an event argument to the CollectionChanged event. Note that this will not be efficient on large collections.

public class PausibleObservableCollection<T> : ObservableCollection<T>
{
    private bool _isPaused = false;
    public bool IsPaused 
    { 
      get { return _isPaused; } 
      set 
      { 
          _isPaused = value;
          if (!value)
          { this.OnCollectionChanged(new System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs(System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedAction.Reset)); }

      } 
    }

    protected override void OnCollectionChanged(System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!IsPaused)
        { base.OnCollectionChanged(e); }
    }
}