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Filip
Filip

Reputation: 61

UWP Dependency Property of type object not binding to ObservableCollection

I have a custom UserControl with a RadDataGrid and a ListView. The UserControl has an ItemsSource which, after some internal operations on the data, populates the ItemsSource properties of both the RadDataGrid and the ListView.

Once populated, I want to expose the ItemsSource property of the RadDataGrid to my view model.

To do this, I create a Dependency Property "GridItemsSource" in the code behind file with a TwoWay binding in the UserControl's XAML file as:

public static readonly DependencyProperty GridItemsSourceProperty = DependencyProperty.Register(nameof(GridItemsSource), typeof(object), typeof(ListViewGrid), new PropertyMetadata(null, OnItemsSourceChanged));
public object GridItemsSource
{
    get { return GetValue(GridItemsSourceProperty); }
    set { SetValue(GridItemsSourceProperty, value); }
}

And:

<grid:RadDataGrid x:Name="DataGrid"
                          Grid.Column="1"
                          UserGroupMode="Disabled"
                          AutoGenerateColumns="False"
                          ItemsSource="{x:Bind GridItemsSource, Mode=TwoWay}"
                          SelectedItem="{x:Bind SelectedGridItem, Mode=TwoWay}">
</grid:RadDataGrid>

In my page I also have a TwoWay binding to the GridItemsSource property as:

<userControls:ListViewGrid x:Name="ListViewGrid"
                           GridItemsSource="{x:Bind ViewModel.FormItems, Mode=TwoWay}"
                           SelectedGridItem="{x:Bind ViewModel.SelectedFormItem, Mode=TwoWay}"/>

And in my ViewModel:

private ObservableCollection<FormItem> formItems;
public ObservableCollection<FormItem> FormItems
{
    get => formItems;
    set => Set(ref formItems, value);
}

This works well for the "SelectedGridItem" alone, but when I bind the "GridItemsSource" the program stops at the setter of the Dependency Property with the following runtime error:

Unable to cast object of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List1[System.Object]' to type 'System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection1[Models.FormItem].

Why do I get this error? All ItemsSource properties I have seen in other Controls are all of type object and binding to an ObservableCollection is not a problem with them.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 396

Answers (1)

Martin Zikmund
Martin Zikmund

Reputation: 39092

I think the problem is that you use Mode=TwoWay on the ItemsSource properties. ItemsSource property should be just "read-only" by the control. Try setting the GridItemsSource and ItemsSource properties to Mode=OneWay only, so that the system doesn't try to reflect any changes to the view model which could cause the conversion problem.

Upvotes: 0

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