Serializing An ObservableCollection(of T) In .Net?

Oct 9, 2009

I'm trying out MVVM in VB.Net for a while now and started out with some of my entities using List(of T)s, which I xml serialized to disk. Now, I updated the classes used by the Lists to implement INotifyPropertyChanged so I also changed the List(of T)s to ObservableCollection(of T)s.After which, the XML serializer stopped working :'( A colleague told me that ObservableCollections, unlike generic Lists, are not serializable.If so then how can I make them Serializable?

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Serializing And De-serializing Objects?

Feb 27, 2011

I am having problems with serializing and de serializing my objects.The following is my code for serializing buttons and labels which I have in my form.

Dim nodes As New List(Of nodeclass)
Dim objStreamWriter As New StreamWriter(filelocation)
For Each btn As Button In myNodeBtns
Dim u As New nodeclass

[code].....

I get an error: There is an error in XML document (20, 3).Now I have found out that this is because I have 2 root elements and 2 xml declerations. When I save the xml for the button and te xml for the label in 2 different files, I have no problem. However I have no idea how to go about saving the xml for both of them in the same file and deserializing it back.

.net - Missing ObservableCollection(of T)?

Oct 8, 2009

I'm doing an experiment on WPF and MVVM, and while coding the ViewModel on Vb.net I noticed this red wavy lines under my ObservableCollection(of T)s T_T

Anyway, the application is in WPF & VB.Net, under the .Net Framework 3.5 (I checked) and I have an 'Imports System.Collections.ObjectModel' on top of my class. Intellisense shows the other classes on System.Collections.ObjectModel except ObservableCollection.

Here's a screenshot.

So, why is ObservableCollection(of T) missing and how do I make it appear?

How To Sort An ObservableCollection

Jul 8, 2009

I have a WPF app which binds a System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection to a listbox. This ObservableCollection contains instances of my own class (named DataContractsUserObject) and at runtime when I add an object to this collection it automatically appears in the listbox because of the binding. The problem is that it always appears at the bottom of the list and I would like it to appear alphabetically sorted as the existing items in the listbox are.So I tried to sort the collection by doing this after I add an item to it:[code]but of course that is not actually sorting the original collection is it, its just sorting a new instance that is in a Generic.List format. Whilst I probably could just do that and then set that new list instance back as the source of the listbox binding, that will cause all of the items to be reloaded (and when each item in the listbox is loaded it animates in, so it would look stupid having all items animate in again just because one has been added).

The ObservableCollection class itself does not have a Sort method and although I know how to implement my own comparison class (using IComparer) I dont know how to make this work on an ObservableCollection without doign ToList or ToArray etc.[code]Just found this that looks like it might be of some use url...

.net - How To Sort A Observablecollection(of String)

May 21, 2012

All I need is a simple way to sort the strings in the collection. I can't find anything online. Everybody is using lamda expressions which I don't think works for just a string collection?

Public Property FilterCollection As New ObservableCollection(Of String)

From d In FilterCollection Order By (Function(d) d)()

.net - LINQ And Static ObservableCollection?

Nov 7, 2011

This will probably be a basic questions for the LINQ & architecture experts however I am failing to understand a problem i've encounted when trying to update a 'Static ObservableCollection.

Me.Grid1.ItemsSource = ContactList Me.Grid2.ItemsSource = From s In ContactList Where s.ContactTypes.Any(Function(t) t.ContactTypeName = "Christmas List")

If I add a new Contact with the ContactType "Christmas List" to the ContactList ObservableCollection, Grid1 reflects the additional Contact however Grid2 does not reflect the change unless I rebind.

Anyway to Reflect the change in Grid2 to show the new Contact with the queried ContactType

Bind Textbox To ObservableCollection?

Jun 15, 2011

I'm trying to get bind a textbox text property to an observable collection, and report changes back to the collection. The ContactLog property gets set from the calling page.[code]....

Wpf - .NET Using LINQ To Transpose An ObservableCollection?

Aug 11, 2010

I have a custom item class (basically two string values with associated properties), as below:

Public Class itmDataDetails
Private _strDataName As String
Private _strDataValue As String
Public Property strDataName() As String

[Code]...

Naturally, this doesn't work as x cannot be added to the ObservableCollection(Of itmDataDetails). Any suggestions on how to accomplish this? I don't know LINQ that well, so I wouldn't be surprised to discover I'm doing it wrong.

Wpf - Bind An ObservableCollection To A ComboBox?

May 10, 2012

How do I get even basic binding to work between a ComboBox and an ObservableCollection? I can't get anything but error messages.

VB:

Class MainWindow
Dim Units As New ObservableCollection(Of String)
Private Sub Window_Loaded(sender As System.Object, e As

[Code]....

Wpf - Bind More Than One ObservableCollection In XAML

Feb 4, 2012

How can I implement both of these ObservableCollections in my xaml? I want to have a listview with all my students, and another listview with all my teachers.For now I just made an example student and teacher object. Am I going about this the wrong way. Eventually I will pulling from a datatable, not sure how I would implement it to the ObservableCollection though.

Public Class PersonalViewModel
Public Sub New()
Dim obcollection1 As New ObservableCollection(Of Student)

[Code].....

Wpf - ListBox ObservableCollection Duplicating?

Aug 18, 2011

I have a WPF application which has a listbox bound to an ObservableCollection which retrieves it's data from a Database. I am attempting to have the ListBox data refreshed every minute through the use of a DispatcherTimer.

Dim dispatcherTimer As DispatcherTimer = New System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer
AddHandler dispatcherTimer.Tick, AddressOf getRoomMeetingDetails
dispatcherTimer.Interval = New TimeSpan(0, 2, 0)
dispatcherTimer.Start()

[Code]...

Wpf - Multi-threaded ObservableCollection In VB

Jul 14, 2010

This is my attempt to create a ObservableCollection in VB that is WPF thread-safe. Can you think of any problems it may have?

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WPF Binding Listview To A ObservableCollection?

May 3, 2011

I'm trying to figure out what I need to change to bind this code to a listview.

XAML:

<Window x:Class="MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

[code]....

what I need to do to change my XAML to Bind to my data.

WPF Unique Entries In An ObservableCollection

May 13, 2011

I have an ObservableCollection of class Customers that I fill from a database query. Because of how the tables are joined, I sometimes get one off entries (Bill has a shipping address that is different than his mailing address) that show up in the data twice.Each customer row has an ID as unique primary key, and this is what I use to pull up more customer information when someone selects a row from the bound ListView. In the WinForms version of this program, I would search the ListView for the CustomerID, and if it was found I would avoid inserting it a second time.

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Asp.net - Listbox Bound To ObservableCollection (in .NET And Silverlight)?

Jan 9, 2011

I'm trying to bind a listbox to an ObservableCollection and keep the listbox updated when items are added to the collection. I have a class called CollectionOfBlogs:

Public Class CollectionOfBlogs
Implements INotifyPropertyChanged
Public Event PropertyChanged As PropertyChangedEventHandler _
Implements INotifyPropertyChanged.PropertyChanged

[code]....

Beyond this, I have a simple textbox and button on a page. When a name is entered into the textbox, and the button is clicked, I call the addBlog(passing in name from textbox) sub routine in the ITRSBlogs Class (back up the page a bit) to add the item to the collection.Problem is, when I add an item to the collection, the listbox is not updated.

Bind ObservableCollection To A DataObjectProvider In XAML?

Sep 14, 2011

I want to bind data to an objectdataprovider.[code]...

C# - ObservableCollection.Contains() Doesn't Work Correctly?

Dec 31, 2011

Consider the following:

class Bind
{
public string x { get; set; }

[code].....

Cannot Change ObservableCollection During An CollectionChanged Event

Mar 15, 2012

I have a CollectionChanged Handler Method:

Private Sub LayersChanged(sender As Object, e As Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs)
If e.ItemCollectionHasNewItems IsNot Nothing Then

[Code]....

I cant call SomethingRelatedToE.excecute because it effects e's collection which causes a runtime error.

However if the LayersChanged method has completed I can then call SomethingRelatedToE.execute from another method without effecting it.

Is there a way for me to directly move to another method after the LayersChanged method has finished, like a Goto function or another solution to this?

C# Linq Query Conversion For Order An ObservableCollection?

Apr 12, 2012

I've a structure collection like this:

Jet Owner Item Comp
AAAA AAAA 101 2210
AAAA AAAA 202 2220

[code].....

Notifying The View Of A Change To An Element Within An ObservableCollection?

Jul 28, 2010

Calling OnPropertyChanged for an ObservableCollection only works when there has been some change to the properties of the collection, not the objects it contains (add, remove, clear, etc).

Is there any way to notify the View that there has been a change to an item within the collection?

Two-way WPF Binding To Properties Of A Class Inside Of An ObservableCollection

Nov 17, 2011

I've searched as best as I can, and I can't find an answer to this specific problem that I have... WPF binding seems to be great and all, but I end up banging my head against the wall more often than not.

Okay, I have a singleton class which is ultimately the one that I'm binding to:

Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.Collections.ObjectModel
Public Class AmandaSeyfried

[Code].....

If I throw some break points on the Getter and Setters of the CountryTranslation class, I can monitor when they're being changed (via the datagrid, so binding is working), but try as I might I can't figure out how to raise an event based upon that back in the main class to subsequently update the datastore to show the changes.

Wpf - Convert C# ObservableCollection Sample To Dataset Or Equivalent

Feb 23, 2011

I have a C# example that is populating a multiselect combobox. This was from an example found online. It works fine with the static values coming from the observable collection. I want to change this to be database driven from a SQL Server backend, but was having issues. I did get it to populate the combobox, but the selection is acting kind of screwy. Some type of simple query from a Northwind table would suffice such as: "Select CategoryName from Categories".

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Wpf - Inserting Data To XML File Notify ObservableCollection

Feb 4, 2011

I have a parent window which has a ListView that is bound to an ObservableCollection that gets it's data from an XML file. On the parent window, I have an add button that opens a opens a Modal Window (form2.ShowDialog(), I think this is a Modal window).

In the child window I have a few text fields and an add button, the user enters data for a new record and clicks the Add button and the XML file is updated with the new record.

What I am seeking to do is when the child window is closed that the ListView in the parent window is refreshed to show the new record.

When I am updating the XML file from the child window, I am doing this directly to the XML file, should I be adding the data to the file in some other manner which would raise an event on the ObservableCollection?

I was heading down the path of adding an event handler to the add button on the parent window and attempt to force a re-read of the XML file, but I cannot figure out how to achieve this, below is what I have done so far.

form1.xaml.vb:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim frm As New newEmergencyContact

[Code]....

I cannot workout what should go into the refresh_EmContacts sub, do I need to call some kind of ObservableCollection event handler to notify it that it has been updated and to do the re-read?

Serializing An Arraylist?

Mar 30, 2011

I have just finished my application and am stuck as to how I'm going to store my data. As it stands I have multiple objects that I created but each of them take multiple ArrayLists as properties. I'm aware that this will give problems if I try to serialize my data?

XML Serializing Delegates

Feb 10, 2010

I have a class that I want to be serializable but contains a public instance of delegate that, apparently can't be serialized: [Code] Is there a way to make it serializable however?

ObservableCollection.Insert On Index Bigger Than Length Of Collection

Mar 15, 2012

I'm wondering, what happens when you do following:

Collection.Insert(55, "Input")

The collection contains 20 items, so 19 would be the last index. This doesn't work, I get the expected outofrangeException. But when I do :

Collection.Insert(20, "Input")

That works without a problem, even though it is 1 out of the collection.

Wpf - Refresh TreeView CollectionViewSource ObservableCollection Item Changed

Apr 23, 2011

I have the following setup for a treeview:

<local:BuddyManager x:Key="bmBuddyManager" />
<CollectionViewSource x:Key="cvsBuddyManager"
Source="{Binding Source={StaticResource bmBuddyManager}, Path=Buddies}">

[Code]....

The Binding and grouping work well, the only issue is when I set a particular 'buddy' to online or blocked the child nodes do not move or change.

I am trying to get this to work like an MSN Treeview where people go offline and online.

.net - Serializing Type Definitions?

Apr 29, 2010

I'm not positive I'm going about this the right way. I've got a suite of applications that have varying types of output (custom defined types).For example, I might have a type called Widget:

Class Widget
Public name as String
End Class

Throughout the course of operation, when a user experiences a certain condition, the application will take that output instance of widget that user received, serialize it, and log it to the database noting the name of the type.

Now, I have other applications that do something similar, but instead of dealing with Widget, it could be some totally random other type with different attributes, but again I serialize the instance, log it to the db, and note the name of the type. I have maybe a half dozen different types and don't anticipate too many additional ones in the future.

After all this is said and done, I have an admin interface that looks through these logs, and has the ability for the user to view the contents of this data thats been logged. The Admin app has a reference to all the types involved, and with some basic switch case logic hinged upon the name of the type, will cast it into their original types, and pass it on to some handlers that have basic display logic to spit the data back out in a readable format (one display handler for each type)NOW... all this is well and good...Until one day, my model changed. The Widget class now has deprecated the name attribute and added on a bunch of other attributes. I will of course get type mismatches in the admin side when I try to reconstitute this data.

I was wondering if there was some way, at runtime, i could perhaps reflect through my code and get a snapshot of the type definition at that precise moment, serialize it, and store it along with the data so that I could somehow use this to reconstitute it in the future?

C# - Comparison Of Serializing Methods?

Dec 25, 2011

Possible Duplicate: Fastest serializer and deserializer with lowest memory footprint in C#?

I'm using BinaryFormatter class to serialize an structure or a class. (after serialization, I'm going to encrypt the serialized file before saving. (And of course decrypt it before deserialization))But I heard that some other serialization classes are present in .Net Framework. Like XmlSerializer, JavaScriptSerializer, DataContractSerializer and protobuf-net.I want to know, which one is best for me?Less RAM space needed for serialize/deserialize is the most important thing for me. Also speed is important.

Databinding To A Numbericupdown And Serializing?

Oct 8, 2010

I have a class:

<Serializable()> Public Class data
Public _needleCount As Integer = 1
Public percent As Double = 100.0
Public table As DataTable
Public part As String = ""

[Code]...

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