Databinding Manual Writevalue In .net Winforms?

If I turn off automatic updating of a binding data source by setting DataSourceUpdateMode = Never and then use a button to update the whole lot (using binding.WriteValue), a problem occurs - Namely, only the first bound control's data source is updated. All other controls are reset back to the original values.This is because when the current object changes (as happens after the above WriteValue), if ControlUpdateMode = OnPropertyChange, then all the other controls re-read in the value from the data source.

One way is to derive a class from BindingSource and add a WriteAllValues method.This method does the following:

(1) For each Binding, save the ControlUpdateMode

(2) For each Binding, set ControlUpdateMode = Never

(3) For each Binding, call the WriteValue Method

(4) For each Binding, reset ControlUpdateMode to the saved value

(5) For each Binding, if ControlUpdateMode = OnPropertyChange, call the ReadValue method.

If working with your own classes, would implementing IEditableObject resolve the issue?In another control I'm working on, I implement my own binding. The way I get around the issue in that is with the following code. (I've put in the bare minimum, I hope you can follow it!):

Private Shared ControlDoingExplicitUpdate As MyCustomControl = Nothing
Private Sub UpdateDataSourceFromControl(ByVal item As Object, ByVal propertyName As String, ByVal value As Object)
Dim p As PropertyDescriptor = Me.props(propertyName)

[code]....

So, when UpdateDataSourceFromControl is called, all the CurrentItemChanged events will be called for all other controls in the same BindingSource. However, because ControlDoingExplicitUpdate is set, they will not re-read in the value from the data source unless they happen to be the control that did the updating.ControlDoingExplicitUpdate is set to Nothing after all these events have completed, so that normal service resumes.