In C# WPF, why is my TabControl's SelectionChanged event firing too often?

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Anders picture Anders · Sep 7, 2010 · Viewed 46.1k times · Source

I have a tabbed GUI with each tab containing a Frame. In one of these Frames there is a DataGrid. When the user selects this tab, I need my datagrid sorted, so I'm using the TabControl SelectionChanged event to trigger the sort. However, this event triggers every time an item is selected from the DataGrid, even though the tabs themselves remain untouched.

I've tried number of different events: GotFocus for a TabItem RequestBringIntoView for a TabItem

but they all seem to suffer from this problem. What is causing this?

Answer

Arcturus picture Arcturus · Sep 7, 2010

The TabControl.SelectionChanged is the same event as a ComboBox.SelectionChanged

It originates from Selector.SelectionChanged.

So, if you do not mark your event as handled in your event handler, it will bubble up the tree, and eventually arrive at your TabControl, which is causing this "firing too often" issue.

Mark your event as handled in your SelectionChanged of your ComboBox/ListBox/ListView/any other Selector you use in your DataGrid like so:

private void MyComboBox_OnSelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
    e.Handled = true;
}

And this inconvenience will go away ;).

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