Observable Collection Notify when property changed in MVVM

Question

I am trying to bind observable collection to DataGrid, i want to notify when any row is edited in datagrid. My code works fine for notifing when record is added or removed but its not notifing when record is edited. Please let me know if this is the right way of binding using observable collection in MVVM and whether i am missing someting. Thanks in advance.

public class studentViewModel : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    #region constructor

    public studentViewModel()
    {
        _student = new studentModel();
        myCollection = new ObservableCollection<studentModel>();
        myCollection.Add(_student);
        myCollection.CollectionChanged += new System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventHandler(myCollection_CollectionChanged);

    }

    void myCollection_CollectionChanged(object sender, System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        //throw new NotImplementedException();
        System.Windows.MessageBox.Show(e.Action.ToString());
    }

    #endregion

    #region properties

    studentModel _student;
    ObservableCollection<studentModel> _myCollection;

    public ObservableCollection<studentModel> myCollection
    {
        get { return _myCollection; }
        set
        {
            if (_myCollection != value)
            {
                _myCollection = value;
                raisePropertyChange("myCollection");
            }
        }
    }

    public int rollNo
    {
        get { return _student.rollNo; }
        set
        {
            if (value != _student.rollNo)
            {
                _student.rollNo = value;
                raisePropertyChange("rollNo");
            }
        }
    }

    public string firstName
    {
        get { return _student.firstName; }
        set
        {
            if (value != _student.firstName)
            {
                _student.firstName = value;
                raisePropertyChange("firstName");
            }
        }
    }

    public string lastName
    {
        get { return _student.lastName; }
        set
        {
            if (value != _student.lastName)
            {
                _student.lastName = value;
                raisePropertyChange("lastName");
            }
        }
    }

    #endregion

    #region INotifyPropertyChanged Members

    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;


    public void raisePropertyChange(string propertyName)
    {
        if (PropertyChanged != null)
        {
           PropertyChanged(this,new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
        }
    }

    #endregion
}

public class studentModel
{
    public int rollNo { get; set; }
    public string firstName { get; set; }
    public string lastName { get; set; }
}

And xaml is

<Window.Resources>
    <local:studentViewModel x:Key="StudentsDetails" />
</Window.Resources>
<Grid DataContext="{StaticResource StudentsDetails}">
    <DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding Path=myCollection, Source={StaticResource StudentsDetails}, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
              Name="studentsGrid" CanUserAddRows="True" AutoGenerateColumns="True">

    </DataGrid>
</Grid>

Valerie

Answer 1

An ObservableCollection will notify the UI when a record is added or removed but not when a record is edited. It's up to the object that has been changed to notify that it has changed.

In your case, when a row is modified, the type of object which is changed is studentModel.
Therefore, if you want the UI to get notified when that object is changed, you need to implement INotifyPropertyChanged on studentModel too..

e.g.

 public class studentModel : INotifyPropertyChanged
   .....

Sika

How does implementing INotifyPropertyChanged on StudentModel 'notify' then Observable collection or collections that contain StudentModel? – Estivate