IValueConverter: The Swiss Army Knife of Bindings [PropertyViewer sample is a WPF/Silverlight visualization and debugging aid!]

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• Anonymous
  May 05, 2008
  Cool - I really appreciate you do everything for both Silverlight and WPF.

• Anonymous
  May 20, 2008
  Apologies for the sparseness of my posting the last few weeks - work and life have been busy here lately

• Anonymous
  May 20, 2008
  Apologies for the sparseness of my posting the last few weeks - work and life have been busy here lately. 

• Anonymous
  May 20, 2008
  Apologies for the sparseness of my posting the last few weeks - work and life have been busy here lately

• Anonymous
  May 23, 2008
  Mijn verontschuldigingen voor de weinige posts de laatste weken. Mijn werk en leven zijn enorm de druk

• Anonymous
  June 02, 2008
  Mes excuses pour le peu de publications au cours des dernières semaines – le travail et la vie en générale

• Anonymous
  June 15, 2008
  Apologies for the sparseness of my posting the last few weeks - work and life have been busy here lately

• Anonymous
  July 04, 2008
  It's a great example. Just as a comment, I like the way Ruby On Rails simplify the binding to objects, letting you get friendly names using the Humanize method. That way using an attribute as [DisplayName("Eats Bugs")] is not need just to split the PropertyName based on the case. Altough the attribute gives you more control. I can see how IValueConverter can be useful in certain escenarios, but most of the time using a FormString would be easier. I dont know if there's something like that in SL or WPF. I did a trick to do something similar using ValueConverters, it work fine, but I think there should be a sexier solution. Here's the XAML. <UserControl.Resources>       <local:StringFormatConverter x:Name="stringFormatter"/>   </UserControl.Resources>   <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">       <StackPanel.DataContext>           <SilverlightApplication3:Person/>       </StackPanel.DataContext>       <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Text="{Binding Mode=OneWay, Path=Name}" TextWrapping="Wrap"/>       <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Text="{Binding Mode=OneWay, Path=LastName}" TextWrapping="Wrap"/>       <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Text='{Binding Mode=OneWay, Path=DOB, Converter={StaticResource stringFormatter}, ConverterParameter="d"}' TextWrapping="Wrap"/>       <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Text='{Binding Mode=OneWay, Path=Age, Converter={StaticResource stringFormatter}, ConverterParameter="c"}' TextWrapping="Wrap"/>       <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Text='{Binding Mode=OneWay, Path=AnualIncome, Converter={StaticResource stringFormatter}, ConverterParameter="0.00"}' TextWrapping="Wrap"/>   </StackPanel> Here's de Code public class StringFormatConverter:IValueConverter   {       #region IValueConverter Members       public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)       {           string formatString = parameter.ToString();           return String.Format("{0:" + formatString + "}", value);       }       public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)       {          throw new NotImplementedException("This Convert supports only OneWay binding");       }       #endregion   }

• Anonymous
  July 04, 2008
  Miguel, Thanks for the kind words - and brief Ruby On Rails lesson! :) I think your approach to string formatting is totally reasonable and it's something I've done once or twice as well. For what it's worth, this scenario should be much easier in WPF 3.5 SP1 because they've added the Binding.StringFormat property (details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/vinsibal/archive/2008/05/16/new-wpf-sp1-feature-data-formatting.aspx). I'm not thinking that'll make it into Silverlight 2, but it sure would be nice!

• Anonymous
  July 21, 2008
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• Anonymous
  September 11, 2008
  When I was writing my video frame grabbing sample , I came up with a potentially useful technique for

• Anonymous
  February 04, 2009
  When we created Silverlight Charting (background reading here and here ), we tried to make things as

• Anonymous
  February 23, 2009
  The only comment to the author - stop being a wuss and stop using "null != ..." or "0 == " syntax. Or do you talk in the same way? "if seven dollars costs a beer, then anymore it's not a happy hour". Sheesh...

• Anonymous
  June 15, 2009
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