Comments on: Do you have any feedback on the AutoCompleteBox API?

By: PIeter

PIeter — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:39:49 +0000

Perhaps more a textbox feature, but AutoCompleteBox is also a textbox, is it not possible at this stage to add the text watermark feature as part of all the textboxes in SL3? I had to develop my own versions when the original WaterMarkTextbox was removed – for both TextBox and AutoCompleteTextBox.

Apologies if I am too far off topic.

By: Jeff Wilcox

Jeff Wilcox — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:32:51 +0000

@Zack,
Your V-VM can typically work with web service calls, but more often than not, there is a gray area of sorts when doing a lot of these web service calls.

The need to call PopulateComplete after population could be done is the only real issue here.

By: Zack

Zack — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:17:45 +0000

Is MVVM supported for situations where the user makes web service calls to populate the autocompletebox?

By: Jeff Wilcox

Jeff Wilcox — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:06:32 +0000

Zack,
It does support the MVVM pattern great! As with all controls, you’ll find a tight coupling in your view.

By: Zack

Zack — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:32:53 +0000

I wish that this supported the MVVM pattern

By: alan

alan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:22:52 +0000

it looks like there might be a bug with valuememberbinding

after the vaue is set programmatically it is null

it still functions as expected ie the binding works but you can’t get it’s value

as for suggestions, i think it would be great if you included a sample that uses ria and also showed how to handle a foreign key in a grid.

there’s a lot of noise out there on ways to do this but they are not especially clear and/or helpful.

if you know of a good example that would be terrific

thanks!
alan

By: Orrin

Orrin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:53:30 +0000

Eliminate the need to explicitly call PopulateComplete() when SearchMode is None. The need to call PopulateComplete() appears to break the separation between the View and ViewModel since the ViewModel needs to know what type of control is consuming the data and call the method on it after the data is updated.

By: Jeff Wilcox

Jeff Wilcox — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:46:35 +0000

Via CodePlex issue tracker, http://silverlight.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=2649 – provide IsReadOnly and IsEnabled properties.

I think IsEditable is a more WPF-compatible name, that we have considered.

IsEnabled is something that the framework provides.

By: Jeff Wilcox

Jeff Wilcox — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:31:49 +0000

Via Twitter, a suggestion was: ” is it possible to make the SelectionAdapter on the AutoCompleteBox a DependencyProperty so it is bindable?”