PivotViewer FilterChanged event - silverlight

I am working on a reporting app using PivotViewer. There are two controls on my grid. One is PivotViewer and the other one is a reporting Panel. After a user changes the filter of the PIvotViewer, I will generate the report on the report Panel in real time based on the remaining items in the current collection of the PivotViewer (InScopeItems). FilterChanged seems like the perfect event to hook up. However, it seems FilterChanged event is fired BEFORE the filter change.The InScopeItems don't change in the call back.
What I want is an event AFTER the filter change.
Right now the reports are very funny because it's showing the last report before I change the filter.
What's the recommended event? This seems like a very common user case but I couldn't find any solution. Thanks!

The best way to track changes to InScopeItems is to track the property itself. If you case is to a INotifyCollectionChanged object, you will have access to a CollectionChanged event. This should get you where you need to go.
Here is an example:
(pViewer.InScopeItems as INotifyCollectionChanged).CollectionChanged += new NotifyCollectionChangedEventHandler(MainPage_CollectionChanged);

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Load view on double-click of row - have bindings working, and event being fired on click, but how do I actually get the view to pop up?

I have a view in Silverlight which contains a telerik:RadGridView with a number of columns.
I have it wired up so that when the user double-clicks on one of these columns, an event is fired. However, I don't know what to put in the event handler.
private void RowClicked()
{
//What goes here?
}
All I wish to do is load a popup view over my current view, with a close button so that the user can return to the previous view. A simple idea that is surely done a billion times everywhere, but I cannot figure it out or find examples of this anywhere.
Can anyone help?
Thanks very much.
You can set a previous view as input parameter to "RowClicked()" method. You will have a reference on previous view in current method. You can use it via Commands (bind a command and a command parameter to some action/event).
I have an one more idea (if you have a lot of views): you can create a navigation service. It is an interface, which contains events and methods. You should use events for navigation and methods - for sending needed data. Everyone of view should implement this interface. Needed event will be raised under view via some action (for example: button click). As for events: you can create a custom event handler, there you will set a sender instance and needed parameters. You should create a Navigation manager, there you should create a property for selected view and subscribe on everyone event. If user want navigate to another view, he will do some action and system will raise an event. You can create a custom container for created views. This container you can use for getting created instance of needed view. As you know, creating a new instance is heavy for system: need a some time and system resources. Will be easy to get a created instance of view instead a create a new. For setting default data or refreshing a binding you can user a custom method, contractor for which will be added to navigation interface.
It is a simple idea, which I used in one project. As for others samples: You can find another navigation frameworks and custom classes in internet. But, process of creating an own system will give you a level up in your work experience.

How to put data onto this Silverlight Timeline Control

I've got the following problem: in our teams software you can navigate to a site (journal) which loads a individual history (journal entries). The history entries are currently shown in a grid. If you change the SelectedItem, additional data (details of the journal entry) is shown below the grid.
Now my team finds this Silverlight Timeline Control (Silverlight Documentation) pretty good for displaying historical data. I think this either.
My problem is that the only way to put data onto this timeline control is via XML files. That's not a viable solution for our project. Do you see a way to "bind" this to something like ItemsSource? The reason for this is that we have lots of "journals". And every journal you open shows a different history of journal entries. You also can add/edit/delete entries.
You can do this through ResetEvents method. Timeline control calculates event positions, so it needs all events to calculate position of any. It loads them quickly, though, so 10k of events should not be a problem. Please use timeline forum http://timeline.codeplex.com/discussions for more help.
Yes, add propery which calls reset events. This could be observable collection, subscribe to events of this collection and call reset events from there also. Makes sense?

How to get an event when WinForms TreeView items gets cleared

I am using a standard TreeView in a WinForms application and everything works fine except for one issue:
Parts of the system need to change depending on the selected TreeNode, which works fine using the AfterSelect event.
However, sometimes the TreeView will get cleared completely resulting in an empty selection which does not trigger this event.
At the momemnt I am calling the event callback manually to fix this issue.
This is obviously dangerous, since I will forget to call this function somewhere. Is there a "correct" way to do this?
Thank You!
This is by design. The underlying native Windows controls only generate notifications for things you cannot figure out yourself. The ListBox control for example doesn't have any event that tells you an item got added or removed. Which is because there is no way for the user to add or remove items. Similarly, there's no way for the user to remove the nodes from a tree view.
These kinds of changes requires code that you write. Since it is your code, you cannot not know that these changes happened. If you want an event then you'll have to raise it yourself. Beware that this is harder than it looks, the TreeNodeCollection class doesn't reliably let you generate an event for programmatic changes to the node collection. It doesn't behave like an ObservableCollection. You are definitely better off by not needing this event.

WPF MVVM: View is not reloaded when ViewModel is changed

I have a WPF application based on the MVVM pattern. It has a tree on the left side and a details area on the right side. The tree contains objects of various types and I have a view model for each type. In the view, I have a different data template (containing a user control) for each view model type. The view is then selected via databinding based on the current details view.
Now, when I switch between tree nodes, I also instantiate a new details view model for each node and the view gets changed accordingly, firing both the DataContextChanged event and the Loaded event. That is, until I start to switch between objects of the same type. Here, too, the details view model gets updated, but the view instance stays the same. This means, only the DataContextChanged event is fired, but not the Loaded event.
Is there a way to force the Loaded event to fire, for instance, by re-initializing the view?
The reason why I need the Loaded event is that WPF fires the selection change events on input controls during data binding and since I have logic that acts upon user-triggered selection change events, I need to be able to ignore those triggered by data binding. For now, the Loaded event seems to be the best option to do this. Escept for the described issue.
Thanks, Michael
Move whatever logic you have in the Loaded handler to the DataContextChanged handler if it needs to run every time the data context changes.

Flagging changed items in DataServiceCollection (OData)

I've got a Silverlight application that has created a master/detail view of data coming from an OData feed (my first app). When I make changes to an item in the detail view, they are showing up just fine in the master, but the user has no indication on what has changed (including adds & deletes).
For some reason I can't find a property that indicates that the collection has changed. There is a CollectionChanged event, but that's only for items it seems, not for their properties.
Is it possible to easily determine what items have changed in a DataServiceCollection and easily show which ones those are? I expect I could build something that walked through the collection, but that's not idea.
There is INotifyPropertyChanged event, that gets fired when the properties are changed. Does that help?
Thanks
Pratik

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