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How to Use Crosslight v2 IValueConverter in BindingProvider Objects?

Hans — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:46:01 GMT

Hallo,

Thanks for your patience. Build 76 is now available in our nightly build server which addressed this issue. Please give it a spin and let us know how it works in your end.

For complete details, see Update 4 Release Notes.

Hope it helps!

How to Use Crosslight v2 IValueConverter in BindingProvider Objects?

Hans — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 06:47:47 GMT

Hello,

Thank you for the valued feedback.

I have report this problem to the developer team, under work item CROS-521.

I will let you know if there is an update regarding this problem

I apologize for the inconvenience.

Regards,
Hans K.

How to Use Crosslight v2 IValueConverter in BindingProvider Objects?

dfugaban@silentpartnersoft.com — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 07:33:11 GMT

Hi,

We have a code snippet below, but this isn't working for BindingProviders. Well, not for null values anyway. See, that's the thing... what if you want to convert a null value into something else? Why is IValueConverter.Convert not being triggered if the value bound to a property is null? If we're missing something, please let us know.

var p_ActualCash = new BindingDescription("Item.ActualCash") { StringFormat = "{0:c2}", Converter = new NullValueConverter() };
var p_ActualToken = new BindingDescription("Item.ActualToken") { StringFormat = "{0:n0}", Converter = new NullValueConverter() };

this.AddBinding("ActualCashLabel", BindableProperties.TextProperty, p_ActualCash);
this.AddBinding("ActualTokeLabel", BindableProperties.TextProperty, p_ActualToken);

The goal of this is to display zero instead of empty string when the value bound to a Text property is null. And the StringFormat should be able to format the zero value. We could use TextField controls and assign placeholder values but that's just a weak solution, especially since currency symbols depend on mobile's culture info. Please advise.