CommunityToolkit
x:Bind and DataTemplates updating two way bindings incorrectly for selector based controls
Wondering if the WindowsCommunityToolkit team could find a solution to this via the mvvm toolkit. Was originally posted on Microsoft's Windows App SDK repo but it has been 3 months and no update on the bug fix. Without this fix using selector based controls in DataTemplates do not work and this is an extremely common use case.
This affects WinUI as a whole but also the ListDetailsView control.
Original: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/10232
When using x:Bind with DataTemplates collection based controls are resetting selected items to null. This has been happening since I started using the Windows App SDK around version 1.0 and is becoming increasingly hard to code around.
Ones I have noticed are Combobox and ListView (I'm sure there are others). This seems to be related to the Selector Base Class.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-app-sdk/api/winrt/microsoft.ui.xaml.controls.primitives.selector?view=windows-app-sdk-1.6
I have tried to look into the generated code and it seems like the following is happening.
A DataTemplates base binding object is set to another object due to the reuse of cached DataTemplates. Selector based sub template controls check if the selected item is in the base binding object's new collection. It's not due to the change of the whole binding object changing. Selected Item is set to null I have attached a sample project to demonstrate this. This issue exists in standard WinUI controls and the Windows Community Toolkit ListDetailsView
Steps to reproduce the bug
Open up example project Go to "x:Bind Control INotifyPropertyChanged" page Click on the different list items change You should notice the sub lists "Selected ***: value" TextBlocks are changing to Null Go to "x:Bind Data Template" page Click on the different list items change. You should notice the sub lists "Selected ***: value" TextBlocks are changing to Null Expected behavior When using x:Bind in a DataTemplate the selected items should not be set to null. DataTemplates may contain a multitude of selector based sub controls. Leads to a mess in the ViewModel when trying to determine if the user changed something on the screen.
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IDE Visual Studio 2022
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