Monitor for all validation events

Question

It\'s quite easy to check if certain container or its children have validation errors. This can be used to disable Save button.

I can use timer

Answer 1

The way I usually handle this is illustrated here:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/28597.aspx

The errorevent will bubble to a container and you can handle that, use a behavior or command to pass it to the viewmodel.

Like:

<ControlTemplate x:Key="AddingTriggers" TargetType="ContentControl">
    <ControlTemplate.Resources>
        <Style TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}" BasedOn="{StaticResource ErrorToolTip}">
            <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Left"/>
        </Style>

    </ControlTemplate.Resources>
    <StackPanel>
        <i:Interaction.Triggers>
            <local:RoutedEventTrigger RoutedEvent="{x:Static Validation.ErrorEvent}">
                <e2c:EventToCommand   Command="{Binding ConversionErrorCommand, Mode=OneWay}"
                                        EventArgsConverter="{StaticResource BindingErrorEventArgsConverter}"
                                        PassEventArgsToCommand="True" />
            </local:RoutedEventTrigger>
        </i:Interaction.Triggers>
        <TextBlock Text="This would be some sort of a common header" Foreground="LightBlue" HorizontalAlignment="Right"/>
        <ContentPresenter/> <!-- This is how you can have variable content "within" the control -->
        <TextBlock Text="This would some sort of a common footer" Foreground="LightBlue"  HorizontalAlignment="Right"/>
    </StackPanel>
</ControlTemplate>

You need NotifyOnValidationError=True on any bindings.