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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation - Second Edition

By : Sheridan Yuen
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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation - Second Edition

By: Sheridan Yuen

Overview of this book

Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides a rich set of libraries and APIs for developers to create engaging user experiences. This book features a wide range of examples, from simple to complex, to demonstrate how to develop enterprise-grade applications with WPF. This updated second edition of Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation starts by introducing the benefits of using the Model-View-View Model (MVVM) software architectural pattern with WPF, then moves on, to explain how best to debug our WPF applications. It explores application architecture, and we learn how to build the foundation layer of our applications. It then demonstrates data binding in detail, and examines the various built-in WPF controls and a variety of ways in which we can customize them to suit our requirements. We then investigate how to create custom controls, for when the built-in functionality in WPF cannot be adapted for our needs. The latter half of the book deals with polishing our applications, using practical animations, stunning visuals and responsive data validation. It then moves on, to look at improving application performance, and ends with tutorials on several methods of deploying our applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Incorporating multiple validation techniques

Now that we've had a good look at the two validation interfaces, the data annotation attributes and the ability to validate with different levels, let's take a look at how we can amalgamate these different techniques.

Let's create a BaseNotifyValidationModelExtended class by copying what we have in our BaseNotifyValidationModel class, and incorporating these following new additions. First, we need to add some extra using directives to the ones used in the previous implementation:

using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using CompanyName.ApplicationName.DataModels.Enums;

Next, we need to add our validationLevel field:

private ValidationLevel validationLevel = ValidationLevel.Full;

We need to add a constructor, in which we attach the ExternalErrors_CollectionChanged event handler to the CollectionChanged event of the ExternalErrors collection property, as we did earlier:

protected BaseNotifyValidationModelExtended...