Binding using INotifyPropertyChanged

Question

In my project I wanna change the background of a Datagrid cell whenever a new Bid price comes in. And I set it using

public class Notifier : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
public bool BidUp
{
    get { return _bidUp; }
    set
    {
        _bidUp = value;
        OnPropertyChanged("BidUp");
    }
}
public double Bid
{
    get { return _bid; }
    set
    {
        BidUp = (value > this.Bid);
        _bid = value;
        OnPropertyChanged("Bid");
    }
}

public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

protected void OnPropertyChanged(string propertyName)
{
    var handler = PropertyChanged;
    if (handler != null)
        handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
}
}

And my xaml code for the DataGridCell:

<DataTemplate>
<Border x:Name="BidBoder" Background="AliceBlue" BorderThickness="0">
    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Bid}" x:Name="BidTextBlock" HorizontalAlignment="Right"></TextBlock>
</Border>
<DataTemplate.Triggers>
    <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding BidUp}" Value="True">
        <DataTrigger.EnterActions>
            <StopStoryboard BeginStoryboardName="bidUpStoryboard"/>
            <StopStoryboard BeginStoryboardName="bidDownStoryboard"/>
            <BeginStoryboard Name="bidUpStoryboard">
                <Storyboard BeginTime="00:00:00">
                    <ColorAnimation 
                        BeginTime="00:00:00"
                        Duration="0:0:0.1" 
                        To="LimeGreen" 
                        AutoReverse="True"
                        Storyboard.TargetName="BidBoder" 
                        Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Border.Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)">
                    </ColorAnimation>
                </Storyboard>
            </BeginStoryboard>
        </DataTrigger.EnterActions>
    </DataTrigger>
    <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding BidUp}" Value="False">
        <DataTrigger.EnterActions>
            <StopStoryboard BeginStoryboardName="bidUpStoryboard"/>
            <StopStoryboard BeginStoryboardName="bidDownStoryboard"/>
            <BeginStoryboard Name="bidDownStoryboard">
                <Storyboard BeginTime="00:00:00">
                    <ColorAnimation 
                        BeginTime="00:00:00"
                        Duration="0:0:0.1" 
                        To="Red" 
                        AutoReverse="True"
                        Storyboard.TargetName="BidBoder" 
                        Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Border.Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)">
                    </ColorAnimation>
                </Storyboard>
            </BeginStoryboard>
        </DataTrigger.EnterActions>
    </DataTrigger>
</DataTemplate.Triggers>

Now what happens is if price goes up followed by a up, BidUp = true--->true the propertyChanged does not trigger. Is there a way to trigeer a change even the _bidUp = value does not change?
And I wanna ask generally if Property A = somevalue is called, why OnPropertyChanged is not called if the same value applies?

Answer 1

You have two ways of triggering the update of more than one property in the same setter:

public double Bid
{
    get { return _bid; }
    set
    {
        BidUp = (value > this.Bid);
        _bid = value;
        OnPropertyChanged("Bid");
        OnPropertyChanged("BidUp"); // notify both properties in the same setter
    }
}

or yet

public double Bid
{
    get { return _bid; }
    set
    {
        BidUp = (value > this.Bid);
        _bid = value;
        OnPropertyChanged(null); // notify change of EVERY property - good if few properties in ViewModel
    }
}

Answer 2

Consider binding to a property that represents the actual value and then use a multibinding (i.e. currentValue and previousValue) to update your UI.