Binding a Value from a View-Model to the View-Model of a child User Control in Silverlight?
- by andrej351
Hi there,
So i have a UserControl for one of my Views and have another 'child' UserControl inside that.
The outer 'parent' UserControl has a Collection on its View-Model and a Grid control on it to display a list of Items.
I want to place another UserControl inside this UserControl to display a form representing the details of one Item.
The outer / parent UserControl's View-Model already has a property on it to hold the currently selected Item and i would like to bind this to a DependancyProperty on the inner / child UserControl. I would then like to bind that DependancyProperty to a property on the child UserControl's View-Model.
I can then set the DependancyProperty once in XAML with a binding expression and have the child UserControl do all its work in its View-Model like it should.
The code i have looks like this..
Parent UserControl:
<UserControl x:Class="ItemsListView"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
DataContext="{Binding Source={StaticResource ServiceLocator}, Path=ItemsListViewModel}">
<!-- Grid Control here... -->
<ItemDetailsView Item="{Binding Source={StaticResource ServiceLocator}, Path=ItemsListViewModel.SelectedItem}" />
</UserControl>
Child UserControl:
<UserControl x:Class="ItemDetailsView"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
DataContext="{Binding Source={StaticResource ServiceLocator}, Path=ItemDetailsViewModel}"
ItemDetailsView.Item="{Binding Source={StaticResource ServiceLocator}, Path=ItemDetailsViewModel.Item, Mode=TwoWay}">
<!-- Form controls here... -->
</UserControl>
The selected Item is bound to the DependancyProperty fine. However from the DependancyProperty to the child View-Model does not. I've used this sort of apporach in a WPF app without problems. It appears to be a situation where there are two concurrent bindings which need to work but with the same target for two sources.
Why won't the second (in the child UserControl) binding work?? Is there a way to acheive the behaviour I'm after??
Cheers.
