Binding new property on Custom Control to View Model.

Question

Hi there,

How do i extend an existing control (ComboBox in my case) to include a new property which i can bind to a property on my view model??

I have a Dependancy Property on the control's class as follows:

public class MyComboBox : ComboBox
{
    public static readonly DependencyProperty MyTextProperty =
        DependencyProperty.Register("MyText", typeof(string), typeof(MyComboBox));

    public string MyText
 {
  get
  {
   return GetValue(MyComboBox.MyTextProperty).ToString();
  }

  set
  {
   SetValue(MyComboBox.MyTextProperty, value);    
  }
 }

And want to bind to it declaratively from XAML like this:

<MyComboBox MyText="{Binding MyTextOnViewModel,
    UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=TwoWay}"/>

The Binding just won't work, any ideas why??

Thanks.

Answer 1

Your getter and setter reference TestTextProperty while the property is declared as MyTextProperty.

Your getter should also be casting instead of calling .ToString()

return (string)GetValue(MyTextProperty);

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