WPF DataGrid not updating on PropertyChanged

Question

i've a problem updating my datagrid when clicking the button by using NotifyPropertyChanged. It works if i set the DataGrid.ItemsSource in code behind, but it doesn't if i set it in xaml. here's some code of code behind & xaml:

namespace MyWpfDataBindingLab
{
public partial class NpcWindow : Window
{
    DataCollection dc = new DataCollection();

    public NpcWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        //command binding code
        //...
    }

    private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        //if i set the ItemsSource here, updating of the UI works
        //dataGrid1.ItemsSource = dc;
    }

    private void CmdCollectionChangedExecute(object sender, ExecutedRoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        foreach (SampleClass s in dc)
        {
            s.Property1 = "changed";
            s.Property3 = "changed";
            s.Property3 = "changed";
            break;
        }

        dc.Add(new SampleClass("new sample 1", "new sample 2", "new sample 3"));
    }
}
}

<Window x:Class="WPFDataBinding.NpcWindow"
     xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:npc="clr-namespace:WPFDataBinding.NotifyPropChanged"
    Title="MainWindow" Height="189" Width="459" Loaded="Window_Loaded">
<Window.Resources>
    <npc:DataCollection x:Key="dataCol"/>
</Window.Resources>
<Grid>
    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
    <Button Content="Button" Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="349,110,0,0" Name="button1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="75" />
    <!-- if i set the ItemsSource here, updating of the UI doesn't work -->
    <DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource dataCol}, Mode=OneWay, NotifyOnSourceUpdated=True, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
              AutoGenerateColumns="True" Height="103" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="12,12,0,0" Name="dataGrid1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="331" />
</Grid>

my data & NotifyPropertyChanged implementation:

namespace MyWpfDataBindingLab.NotifyPropChanged
{    
public class SampleClass : NotifyPropertyChanged
{
    private string _field1;
    private string _field2;
    private string _field3;

    public string Property1
    { 
        get { return _field1; } 
        set 
        {
            _field1 = value;
            OnPropertyChanged("Property1");
        }
    }

    public string Property2
    { 
        get { return _field2; } 
        set 
        {
            _field2 = value;
            OnPropertyChanged("Property2");
        }
    }

    public string Property3
    { 
        get { return _field3; } 
        set 
        {
            _field3 = value;
            OnPropertyChanged("Property3");
        }
    }

    public SampleClass()
    {
        _field1 = "value1";
        _field2 = "value2";
        _field3 = "value3";
    }

    public SampleClass(string p1, string p2, string p3)
    {
        _field1 = p1;
        _field2 = p2;
        _field3 = p3;
    }
}
}

namespace MyWpfDataBindingLab.NotifyPropChanged
{
public abstract class NotifyPropertyChanged : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

    protected void OnPropertyChanged(string propertyName)
    {
        PropertyChangedEventHandler handler = PropertyChanged;

        if (handler != null)
        {
            handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
        }
    }
}
}

namespace MyWpfDataBindingLab.NotifyPropChanged
{
public class DataCollection : ObservableCollection<SampleClass> 
{
    public DataCollection()
    {
        this.Add(new SampleClass());
        this.Add(new SampleClass());
        this.Add(new SampleClass());
    }
}
}

i have no idea what the problem is. i'd appreciate it if someone can help solving my problem.

Answer 1

I followed up on syned's tip. For me I had to us the Mode as

Mode=TwoWay

The key here was the

UpdateSourceTrigger

property.

Thanks a lot...!

Answer 2

In your codebehind .xaml.cs create property

   public ObservableCollection<SampleClass> MyCollection {get; set;}

   private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
   {
    //if i set the ItemsSource here, updating of the UI works
      dataGrid1.ItemsSource = MyCollection;
   }

In XAML:

   <DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding Path=., Mode=OneWay, NotifyOnSourceUpdated=True, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"/>