Hello,
I am working on a WPF application using CSLA version 3.6.0.0. We do plan to upgrade to the current version of CSLA in the future but need to schedule time for regression testing. I have a window with a ListBox control that is bound to an empty BusinessList object. I have a button which opens a window where the user can enter some data to create a Business object and save it then the child window calls back to the parent window and adds that new Business object to the ((businessObjectCollection)ListBox.DataContext).Add(businessObject). But the ListBox does not get refreshed with the newly added object. I saw a post that CSLA uses a style of interface but not the Observable interface which is why the ListBox does not update itself. What should I look at to fix this?
There is no easy fix, that's the problem. Microsoft really put us in a bad place.
WPF uses ObservableCollection<T>. Windows Forms uses BindingList<T>. The two are basically incompatible, though WPF sort of works with BindingList<T>.
CSLA 3.x uses BindingList<T>. CSLA 4 defaults to ObservableCollection<T>, and has secondary list classes using BindingList<T> for Windows Forms work.
You can search the internet for ways to bind WPF to a BindingList<T>. There are some solutions out there, but none are elegant or easy. That might be your only option though, at least until you can get to CSLA 4/.NET 4.
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