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Milos
Milos

Reputation: 1465

How to set Dependency Property declared in code-behind

I'm trying to bind value from ViewModel class to custom property declared in code behind Window class. What I'm getting with this example is "The member 'FullScreen' is not recognized or is not accessible." error.

Here is MainWindow class:

public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        public static readonly DependencyProperty FullScreenProperty =
            DependencyProperty.Register(nameof(FullScreen), typeof(bool),
                typeof(MainWindow), new PropertyMetadata(default(bool), PropertyChangedCallback));

        public bool FullScreen
        {
            get => (bool)GetValue(FullScreenProperty);
            set => SetValue(FullScreenProperty, value);
        }

        private static void PropertyChangedCallback(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            var value = (bool)e.NewValue;
            //this.GoToFullScreen(value);
        }

        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
    }

And the XAML part:

<Window x:Class="WindowDependencyPropertyTest.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
        xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WindowDependencyPropertyTest"
        mc:Ignorable="d"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="450" Width="800" FullScreen="{Binding FullScreenFromVm}" >
    <Grid>

    </Grid>
</Window>

What would be the best way to achieve this functionality?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 794

Answers (2)

Sinatr
Sinatr

Reputation: 21969

You can create a custom window and add dependency property to it

public class CustomWindow : Window
{
    // propdp FullScreenFromVm ...
}

Then you just need to change

<Window ... >

to

<local:CustomWindow ... FullScreen="{Binding FullScreenFromVm}">

and change base class of window

public partial class MainWindow : CustomWindow
{
   ...
}

This way dependency property is available in xaml.

Initially I thought you could just write <local:MainWindow ...> to get access to defined dependency property, but unfortunately this breaks code generation, because x:Class expects the containing type to be a base class.

Upvotes: 1

Clemens
Clemens

Reputation: 128013

Provided that the MainWindow's DataContext is set to an object with a FullScreenFromVm property, this should work:

<Window x:Class="WindowDependencyPropertyTest.MainWindow" ...>
    <Window.Style>
        <Style>
            <Setter Property="local:MainWindow.FullScreen"
                    Value="{Binding FullScreenFromVm}"/>
        </Style>
    </Window.Style>
    ...
</Window>

Or you bind the property in the MainWindow constructor:

public MainWindow()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    SetBinding(FullScreenProperty, new Binding("FullScreenFromVm"));
}

Upvotes: 1

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