How to implement two way binding between an ActiveX control and a WPF MVVM View Model
- by Zamboni
I have a WPF application implemented using the MVVM framework that uses an ActiveX control and I need to keep the WPF and ActiveX UI synchronised.
So far I can update the ActiveX UI when I change the WPF UI using the code at the bottom of the question that I got from the article Hosting an ActiveX Control in WPF and this question.
But I cannot update the WPF UI when I make a change in the ActiveX UI.
I suspect that I need to fire the PropertyChanged event from my ActiveX control but I have no idea how to do this or if it is even possible.
The ActiveX controls I have written are in VB6 and MFC as I am just prototying at this time for the eventual integration of VB6 ActiveX controls in a WPF contaner application.
Here is a code snipet that indicates the work done so far:
System.Windows.Forms.Integration.WindowsFormsHost host = new System.Windows.Forms.Integration.WindowsFormsHost();
// Create the ActiveX control.
AxTEXTBOXActiveXLib.AxTEXTBOXActiveX axWmp = new AxTEXTBOXActiveXLib.AxTEXTBOXActiveX();
// Assign the ActiveX control as the host control's child.
host.Child = axWmp;
axWmp.DataBindings.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.Binding("ActiveXStatus", (MainWindowViewModel)this.DataContext, "ModelStatus", true, DataSourceUpdateMode.OnPropertyChanged ));
// Add the interop host control to the Grid
// control's collection of child controls.
this.activexRow.Children.Add(host);
How to implement two way binding between an ActiveX control and a WPF MVVM View Model?
