I am facing an issue with control binding in code in mono droid. I have an activity inheriting from MvxActivity and I saw some article to perform data binding in code using CreateBindingSet(). Can someone tell me what assembly reference I need on my monodroid project to get this method? If possible, can someone help me out with a sample example as well?
I am using V3 of MvvmCross.
Thanks
Amit
You need to have a using Cirrious.MvvmCross.Binding.BindingContext; and then you should be able to use Bind() on stuff.
Take a look at the DialogExamples Tutorial in the MvvmCross-Tutorial repository.
Binding is pretty simple, you need to create a binding set first:
var bSet = this.CreateBindingSet<TView, TViewModel>
Then you can use that to Bind UI objects:
bSet.Bind(myTextView)
.For(v => v.Text) //View Property
.To(vm => vm.Stuff) //ViewModel Property
There is also a lot more information on bindings in the Bindings Page in the Wiki.
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I'm trying to use BIND framework to bind a UITableView with UITextfield's which can edit the content.
I'm trying to achieve something very similar to how binding is done in Mac OSX. Bind a datasource with view, let the user make changes, on save the data is saved after validations.
Typically this is done by subscribing the delegate or observing the valueChanged event from textfield. I wanted to try out a new way to reduce this, that's how I came across BIND framework.
It encourages to use an MVVM framework, usually seen in .NET. Binding is as simple as mapping the keypath of model with the view component. But I'm finding it difficult to achieve to two way binding, from model to component and back.
BINDINGS(MHPersonNameViewModel,
BINDViewModel(name, ~>, textLabel.text),
BINDViewModel(ID, ~>, detailTextLabel.text),
nil);
Could anyone point me in the right direction.
This is a late answer, and not even really an answer to your question, but I hope it's still useful.
Take a look at https://github.com/mutech/aka-ios-beacon. This is a binding framework that integrates into Interface Builder and (by default) uses the view controller as root view model.
You don't have to write any code to initialize bindings. In your example, assuming that the view controller has (KVO compliant) properties "name" and "ID", you would just need to set the UILabel "text binding" properties to name and ID (you find the in the property panel in interface builder and enable bindings for the view controller (also in the properties panel).
And that should be all you have to do to establish bindings.
In versions up to 0.1.1 of AKABeacon, "enable bindings" is not yet there. In this case your view controller would have to inherit from AKAFormViewController.
My question is really a repeat of an old question posted here:
Ninject 2.2 multiple bindings
It seems someone was going to deal with this back in 2011. Does anyone know if there is some way to turn off such warnings in Ninject? Or some other workaround?
EDIT
In response to #BatteryBackupUnit, here is my exact problem:
I have multiple libraries... and in my core library, I do something like this:
Find all assemblies referenced by the host application (including the host)
Find all types inheriting from IDependency from all those assemblies.
Automatically register all of those as transient
Then from another library (which may or may not be referenced by the host app), I have this:
Kernel.Bind<IDbContextFactory>().To<DbContextFactory>().InSingletonScope();
Here IDbContextFactory is also an IDependency, so it got loaded already by the core library and now I register it here but with a different scope (singleton).
From experience (and having tested it earlier) I know this is no problem in Autofac, but Ninject gives me that error message about having already registered it.
Ideally it would be better to just override any previous registrations... "cascade style" (for lack of a better phrase)..
Ninject does now support overriding open generic bindings with more specific ones.
For Example:
public interface IFoo<T> { }
public class Foo<T> : IFoo<T> { }
public class StringFoo : IFoo<string> {}
used like:
var kernel = new StandardKernel();
kernel.Bind(typeof(IFoo<>)).To(typeof(Foo<>));
kernel.Bind<IFoo<string>>().To<StringFoo>();
var intFooInstance = kernel.Get<IFoo<int>>();
var stringFooinstance = kernel.Get<IFoo<string>>();
Works.
However, if you're not talking about open generic bindings, ninject 3 still handles multi bindings the same as ninject 2.2.
In most scenarios you can work around this by using contextual bindings. Okay i would not exactly call it a workaround, i would call it good design.
In general this is described here: https://github.com/ninject/ninject/wiki/Contextual-Binding
A simple way would be to specify the binding using a name. This requires one binding for the specified one and allows only one, too.
See: https://github.com/ninject/ninject/wiki/Contextual-Binding#simple-constrained-resolution-named-bindings
It is also possible to define a "default" binding like .Bind<IFoo>().To<Foo>(); and special case bindings with the .When(...) syntax, like:
.Bind<IFoo>().To<SpecialFoo>().When(ctx => ...)
See https://github.com/ninject/ninject/wiki/Contextual-Binding#specifying-constraints-on-the-type-binding-using-arbitrary-elements-of-the-resolution-request-context
If you show us your concrete problem we might be able to provide a more concrete solution.
Is there any example of binding any sort of collection to a TableLayout in android? I keep receiving the message/warning that binding failed for attribute ItemSource LocationQuantities. All of the other bindings to the view model work as normal, but the list doesn't bind to the TableLayout. At first I thought my problem was binding to a dictionary but I was able to bind to a dictionary with other Mvx layouts (listview etcs.)
I can't seem to find in any of the N+ code examples or anywhere else on the web where a TableLayout is actually used in an mvvmcross app. I'm sure I'm just doing something stupid simple wrong here.
<Mvx.MvxTableLayout
p1:id="#+id/PartLocationQtyTable"
p1:layout_width="fill_parent"
p1:layout_height="wrap_content"
p1:layout_below="#id/PartDetailPriceLayout"
p1:padding="5.0dp"
local:MvxBind="ItemSource LocationQuantities"
/>
I've tried the above as well as with a custom template. The above example just uses a list of strings.
Any help would be appreciated
The only obvious problem I can see with your code is that it uses ItemSource whereas all the list-based layouts use ItemsSource - see MvxTableLayout.cs#L89
Beyond that, I guess you'll also want to make sure that your templates for TableLayout are TableRows - so that they can be loaded as rows. Obviously we can't see your item templates currently as you've not included them in the question.
I've got to admit TableLayout isn't something I've ever personally used in a production project - just not something I've yet needed to use.
I didn’t found short form for this question as subject…
Is it possible to inject already resolved instance’s property to dependency instance's constructor?
My question arises from MVC tutorial, created in 2009.
It seems like it’s a cyclic dependency to me.
Anyway, can I:
grab resolved ContactController (or its base Controller, Listing 3.) instance’s property ModelState
and inject it to its dependency ContactService (Listing 4.) instances dependency ModelStateWrapper (Listing 7.)
as constructor argument.
_service = new ContactManagerService(new ModelStateWrapper(this.ModelState)); (After Listing 8.)
How to accomplish above line with DI container?
I know that this validation that is happening in Service Layer can be done with data annotations or custom attributes, my question is not so much about design or architecture but possibility.
I have read Ninject wiki, some blog posts, answers, even found somewhat similar situations out there, but not exactly like this or was not able to figure out how to accomplish this or is it possible at all with Ninject.
BR,
No you can't
To see the problem you must think about the order in which the objects are created
var modelStateWrapper = new ModelStateWrapper();
var service = new ContactService(modelStateWrapper);
var controller = new ContactController(service);
This means the modelstate wrapper is created longtime before the controller and therefore it is impossible to pass the model state to the ModelStateWrapper's constructor. The only thing that is doable is to use Property Injection somewhere but this is only a workaround for the actual problem which is that you have a cyclic dependency.
The implementation also ties the service tightly to the controller. Consider using ModelValidators instead.
I am trying to Bind two concrete classes to one interface. What command should I use in Ninject to do that? What I am trying to do is to Bind two concrete classes to one interface base on the controller Name. Is that possible? I suppose that in ninject you use the .When to give the conditional but there is no tutorial out there where they show you how to use the .When for ninject.
Here are few examples. Check out Ninject source project and its Tests subproject for various samples of usage, that's the best documentation for it, especially since docs haven't been updated for v2 yet.
// usage of WhenClassHas attribute
Bind<IRepository>().To<XmlDefaultRepository>().WhenClassHas<PageAttribute>().WithConstructorArgument("contentType", ContentType.Page);
// usage of WhenInjectedInto
Bind<IRepository>().To<XmlDefaultRepository>().WhenInjectedInto(typeof(ServicesController));
Bind<IRepository>().To<XmlDefaultRepository>().WhenInjectedInto(typeof(PageController)).WithConstructorArgument("contentType", ContentType.Page);
Bind<IRepository>().To<XmlDefaultRepository>().WhenInjectedInto(typeof(WidgetZoneController)).WithConstructorArgument("contentType", ContentType.WidgetZone);
// you can also do this
Bind<IRepository>().To<PageRepository>().WhenInjectedInto(typeof(PageController)).WithConstructorArgument("contentType", ContentType.Page);
Bind<IRepository>().To<WidgetZoneRepository>().WhenInjectedInto(typeof(WidgetZoneController)).WithConstructorArgument("contentType", ContentType.WidgetZone);
// or this if you don't need any parameters to your constructor
Bind<IRepository>().To<PageRepository>().WhenInjectedInto(typeof(PageController));
Bind<IRepository>().To<WidgetZoneRepository>().WhenInjectedInto(typeof(WidgetZoneController));
// usage of ToMethod()
Bind<HttpContextBase>().ToMethod(context => new HttpContextWrapper(HttpContext.Current));
HTH