Monday 7 January 2013

MVVM WPF Validating multiple items together

In an application I am developing, I required that two checkboxes be validated together, when either one of them were clicked. I also needed to only show the Validation error once in my Error Message Box.

To achieve this we first call the OnPropertyChanged routine, which in turn raises the PropertyChanged event, for each linked Property when any of the linked properties change.

For example;

Public Property Property1 As Boolean
    Get
        Return _Property1
    End Get
    Set(value As Boolean)
 
        If _Property1 <> value Then
 
            _Property1 = value
            OnPropertyChanged("Property1")
            OnPropertyChanged("Property2")
 
        End If
 
    End Set
End Property


For the Validation errors, I have employed a simple Key, Value Pair list to store all of the Validation Error Results. Thus, I simply check to see if the other Property has Registered an Error, and remove it if so;



 
        ''' <summary>
        ''' Validates the Current Item
        ''' </summary>
        ''' <param name="ColumnName"></param>
        ''' <returns></returns>
        ''' <remarks></remarks>
        Public Overrides Function ValidateItemValue(ColumnName As String) As String
            Dim strResult As String = ""
 
            Select Case ColumnName
 
                Case "Property1"
 
                    If Property1 = False And Property2 = False Then
 
                        strResult = "Please select either Property1, Propert2 or Both!"
 
                        If Me.lstErrors.ContainsKey("Property2") = True Then
 
                            Me.lstErrors.Remove("Property2")
 
                        End If
 
                    End If
 
                Case "Property2"
 
                    If Property1 = False And Property2 = False Then
 
                        strResult = "Please select either Property1, Property2 or Both!"
 
                        If Me.lstErrors.ContainsKey("Property1") = True Then
 
                            Me.lstErrors.Remove("Property1")
 
                        End If
 
                    End If
 
 
            End Select
 
            SortErrorList(ColumnName, strResult)        ' Add or Remove an Error Item
 
            Return strResult
 
        End Function

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