EntityFramework EntityCollection Observing CollectionChanged

Question

I use the EntityFramework database first in the application. I would like to somehow receive a notification about changes EntityCollectionin my ViewModel. It does not directly support INotifyCollectionChanged(why?), And I could not find another solution.

Here is my last attempt, which does not work, because the event ListChangeddoes not appear:

public class EntityCollectionObserver<T> : ObservableCollection<T>, INotifyCollectionChanged where T : class
{
    public event NotifyCollectionChangedEventHandler CollectionChanged;

    public EntityCollectionObserver(EntityCollection<T> entityCollection)
        : base(entityCollection)
    {
        IBindingList l = ((IBindingList)((IListSource)entityCollection).GetList());
        l.ListChanged += new ListChangedEventHandler(OnInnerListChanged);
    }

    private void OnInnerListChanged(object sender, ListChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (CollectionChanged != null) 
            CollectionChanged(this, new NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs(NotifyCollectionChangedAction.Reset));
    }
}

Does anyone have any ideas how I can observe changes in EntityCollection?

Dan

Answer 1

, , @Aron, .

, , , IBindingList EntityCollection - . , , , IBindingList, EntityCollection.

, :

public class EntityCollectionObserver<T> : ObservableCollection<T> where T : class
{
    private static List<Tuple<IBindingList, EntityCollection<T>, EntityCollectionObserver<T>>> InnerLists 
        = new List<Tuple<IBindingList, EntityCollection<T>, EntityCollectionObserver<T>>>();

    public EntityCollectionObserver(EntityCollection<T> entityCollection)
        : base(entityCollection)
    {
        IBindingList l = ((IBindingList)((IListSource)entityCollection).GetList());
        l.ListChanged += new ListChangedEventHandler(OnInnerListChanged);


        foreach (var x in InnerLists.Where(x => x.Item2 == entityCollection && x.Item1 != l))
        {
            x.Item3.ObserveThisListAswell(x.Item1);
        }
        InnerLists.Add(new Tuple<IBindingList, EntityCollection<T>, EntityCollectionObserver<T>>(l, entityCollection, this));
    }

    private void ObserveThisListAswell(IBindingList l)
    {
        l.ListChanged += new ListChangedEventHandler(OnInnerListChanged);
    }

    private void OnInnerListChanged(object sender, ListChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnCollectionChanged(new NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs(NotifyCollectionChangedAction.Reset));
    }
}

Answer 2

AssociationChanged . ( RelatedEnd.)

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Answer 3

How do you match the event? Paste the code and display the event as shown below works for me.

static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        EntityCollection<string> col = new EntityCollection<string>();
        EntityCollectionObserver<string> colObserver = new EntityCollectionObserver<string>(col);

        colObserver.CollectionChanged += colObserver_CollectionChanged;

        col.Add("foo");
    }

    static void colObserver_CollectionChanged(object sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Entity Collection Changed");
    }