Comments on: Custom Silverlight TextBox control that immediately updates DataBound Text property in TwoWay binding

By: Arjun

Arjun — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:27:07 +0000

Awesome !!! Thanks a lot. This is worked like a charm !!!

By: Pablo Arista

Pablo Arista — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:28:31 +0000

Beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing.

By: Karzan Fatah

Karzan Fatah — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:58:02 +0000

Great stuff.. This helped me…!

Thanks.

By: sriya

sriya — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:56:26 +0000

This was too gud.This helped me.thanks.

By: Richard Reukema

Richard Reukema — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:29:04 +0000

I found another solution thanks to Laurent of MVVM toolkit – he uses the KeyUp event, which fires each time the key is lifted. I saw this in one of his examples – sorry can’t remember which one!

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:04:52 +0000

Hello
Uf, this solution is exactly what I was looking for, but I cannot get it to work. I have inserted the class, and added the xmlns in my xaml… but it doesn’t recognize the type, when I want to insert the ImmediateTextBox. Is there anything else that needs to be done, before this should work?
Thank you!

By: roboblob

roboblob — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:35:52 +0000

yes this is known problem, im surprised that Microsoft did not fix this ‘feature’ already.
Anyway this simple control solves it elegantly so everyone can use it…

Cheers!

By: Mike stokes

Mike stokes — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:42:48 +0000

Cool! The other place the default behavior causes a problem is when users enter info in a textbox then close the user control that hosts it… The lost focus isn’t captured and the data is lost in an mvvm model.

This solves that nicely

By: roboblob

roboblob — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:09:41 +0000

Yes Behaviors are anyway meant to be created so they can be reused on different Controls and this would hardly be reusable on different controls so it seems that custom control is a better fit after all…

By: David Padbury

David Padbury — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:10:03 +0000

Implementing this as a Blend Behavior would be pretty much identical to what you’ve got and it’s a technique that I frequently use. What I find a little painful with the Blend Behaviors is that we’re unable to apply them in a Style making the XAML for a form with many TextBoxes a bit of a mess. The method presented here would not have the same problem.