Why am i using UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged ,TwoWay is not enough?

loki picture loki · Nov 28, 2012 · Viewed 15k times · Source

hi; there are Source and target textbox txttarget has a binding to txtsource. when writing something in txtsource, txttarget is changed.Everything is good. But writing on txttarget, i dont see any changes at txttarget? there is TwoWay mode. Twoway mode is not enough? can i write without using "UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged"?


   <Grid>
        <TextBox Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="155,62,0,0" Name="txtSource" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="120" />
        <TextBox Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left"
                 Text="{Binding ElementName=txtSource,Path=Text,Mode=TwoWay}" 
                 Margin="155,113,0,0" Name="txtTarget" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="120" />
    </Grid>

Answer

Klaus78 picture Klaus78 · Nov 28, 2012

txtTarget.Text is updated whenever the bound source (txtSource.Text) changes.

The binding mode is TwoWay which means that changes to txtTarget.Text will be reflected to the bound source. When? It depends on the Binding.UpdataSourceTrigger property.

If you want your target binding to update your source binding when changing you must use Binding.UpdataSourceTrigger = OnPropertyChanged, otherwise you will update the binding source when txtTarget losts focus (default behavior).