How to refresh xmlDataProvider when xml document changes at runtime in WPF?
- by Kajsa
I am trying to make a image viewer/album creator in visual studio, wpf. The image paths for each album is stored in an xml document which i bind to to show the images from each album in a listbox.
The problem is when i add a image or an album at runtime and write it to the xml document. I can't seem to make the bindings to the xml document update so they show the new images and albums aswell.
Calling Refresh() on the XmlDataProvider doesn't change anything.
I don't wish to redo the binding of the XmlDataProvider, just make it read from the same source again.
XAML:
...
<Grid.DataContext>
<XmlDataProvider x:Name="Images" Source="Data/images.xml" XPath="/albums/album[@name='no album']/image" />
</Grid.DataContext>
...
<Label Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Padding="0" Margin="0,0,0,5" Content="{x:Static resx:Resource.AddImageLabel}"/>
<TextBox Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Name="newImagePath" Margin="0" />
<Button Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="2" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Name="newImagePathButton" Content="{x:Static resx:Resource.BrowseImageButton}" Click="newImagePathButton_Click" />
...
<ListBox Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="4" Grid.Row="3" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Name="thumbnailList" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True" ItemsSource="{Binding BindingGroupName=Images}" SelectedIndex="0" Background="#FFE0E0E0" Height="110">
...
Code behind:
private void newImagePathButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
string imagePath = newImagePath.Text;
albumCreator.addImage(imagePath, null);
//Reset import image elements to default
newImagePath.Text = "";
//Refresh thumbnail listbox
Images.Refresh();
Console.WriteLine("Image added!");
}
public void addImage(string source, XmlElement parent)
{
if (parent == null)
{
//Use default album
parent = (XmlElement)root.FirstChild;
}
//Create image element with source element within
XmlElement newImage = xmlDoc.CreateElement(null, "image", null);
XmlElement newSource = xmlDoc.CreateElement(null, "source", null);
newSource.InnerText = source;
newImage.AppendChild(newSource);
//Add image element to parent
parent.AppendChild(newImage);
xmlDoc.Save(xmlFile);
}
Thank you very much for any help!
