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While working on any XAML based app, first thing which comes into mind is Binding . There are lot many articles on what is Binding and how it works. Don’t worry, I am not going to repeat all that stuff again. But definitely, I would like to touch upon few things which are base of my today’s write-up. To make any property bindable or let’s say to propagate property change, we usually follow one of the below two options: Implement INotifyPropertyChanged interface or Create an event with name PropertyNameChanged Point to notice here is, both the above options will work only on instance properties. Now what if my property is Static??? INotifyPropertyChanged is not going to work for static properties. None of the above options will make x:Static extension work. What to do now ? No worries, all these hazards can easily be overcome when you will jump to .Net 4.5. Approach 1: Property specific static event for each and every static property Let’s have a look a...

Prior to this post, I have already discussed few ways of handling INotifyPropertyChanged interface. Now you might be thinking what's next ? Well, today I'll talk about much better and cleaner way of handling this interface, which is type-safe as well as less error prone. Till now, as a common practice, we were passing a property name as a parameter of our RaisedPropertyChanged method, which unfortunately has some demerits.  Let's say, what if user changed the name of the property and forgot to change the parameter passed inside RaisedPropertyChanged method. Now you might say that we can get rid of this by using Reflection. Even I agree with that but again it comes with an additional associated cost. So, what's the solution now??? Enough of worries, this issue has been addressed in .Net 4.5, in which developer can get rid of this parameter passing approach. Impressed? An attribute titled  CallerMemberName relieves us from all the worries because now this attribut...

Background In my previous post on  Simplest MVVM Ever , I gave the simplest overview of implementing MVVM. Now moving forward, I thought to extend my previous post by picking individual areas. And this time, I selected  RaisePropertyChanged . All the developers working on XAML related apps are very well aware about the use of this RaisePropertyChanged. I am sure, most of us are also aware on where to use this. But does everyone aware about what is the proper way or let's say generic way to use it ??? Well, even if you are not aware, no problem. At the end of this post, you will surely take home a useful tip on using  RaisePropertyChanged . Introduction As we know that MVVM provides a loose coupling methodology. At lot many places it is very useful to get benefit of such architecture, but at the cost of your alertness. Because when we are talking about MVVM, we usually says that ViewModel has no knowledge about View and properties are the way, who binds View and Vi...