New to MVVM so please excuse my ignorance.
I THINK i'm using it right but I find my ViewModel has too many of these:
RaisePropertyChanged("SomeProperty")
Every time I set a property I have to raise that damned property changed.
I miss the days where I could just go:
public int SomeInteger { get; private set;}
These days I have to stick the "RaisePropertyChanged" in everywhere or my UI does not reflect the changes :(
Am I doing it wrong or are other people getting annoyed with the excessive number of magic strings and old school property setters?
Should I be using dependency properties instead? (I doubt that would help the code bloat anyway)
Despite these problems I still think MVVM is the way to go so I guess that's something.
Take a look at this What is the best or most interesting use of Extension Methods you've seen?.
It describes an extension method and a helper method that my Model and ViewModel classes use to enable the following strongly typed (no magic string) properties.
private string _name;
public string Name
{
get { return _name; }
set { this.NotifySetProperty(ref _name, value, () => this.Name); }
}
This is about as simple as I think it can get. Hope it helps.