I've a CustomControl which has an Items property. An internal TabControl is bound to it like this:
<Style TargetType="{x:Type local:CustomControl1}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type local:CustomControl1}">
<Border Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"
BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}"
BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}">
<TabControl Name="PART_TabControl"
>
</TabControl>
</Border>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
OnApplyTemplate:
public override void OnApplyTemplate()
{
base.OnApplyTemplate();
TabControl tabControl = Template.FindName("PART_TabControl", this) as TabControl;
foreach (var item in Items)
{
Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(new Action(() => tabControl.Items.Add(item)), System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority.ContextIdle);
}
}
To demonstrate the problem I've added "Dispatcher.BeginInvoke". The problem occurs when tabitems are added after a while. The usage below results in a binding failure:
<ccl:CustomControl1 Name="cc1">
<ccl:TabItemCollection>
<TabItem Header="Tab1">
<TextBox Name="txtData" />
</TabItem>
<TabItem Header="Tab2">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ElementName=txtData, Path=Text}" />
</TabItem>
</ccl:TabItemCollection>
</ccl:CustomControl1>
I noticed that after snooping the textblock, the problem is fixed. And from the source code I see this code does the job:
BindingExpression expression = BindingOperations.GetBindingExpression(dObj, property);
if (expression != null && !expression.HasError && expression.Status != BindingStatus.Active)
{
dObj.ClearValue(property);
BindingOperations.SetBinding(dObj, property, expression.ParentBindingBase);
}
As I've many controls in tab items this kind of "fix binding" code causes a lot of performance issues.
Is there any workaround for that?