winforms-reactiveui-demo
Winforms .net Core 6 + ReactiveUI and DynamicData
Goals
The goal of this demo is to show how to deal with the most common scenarios for a Desktop application. The application implements:
- Dependency injection with Splat, views, and services.
- How to use a main entry-point with Routing and UserControls.
- How to open a new Form (outside the main routing).
- Routing between screens/views.
- Binding data and execute commands between View and ViewModel.
- Bind to reactive properties (as calculated fields).
- How to bind data to a ListBox via DataSource. More info on DataSource.
- How to deal with UI events (via
ReactiveMarbles.ObservableEvents.SourceGenerator). See the note below. - How to use Interactions to show Modal form with or without DialogResult.
- How to subsribe to UI changes like TextBox and ComboBox with sort info, and refresh the data in the UI.
- How to use Dynamic Data and deal with Collections. See the note below.
- etc.
Note related to RxUi WinForms events
RxUI WinForms doesn't support Bind yet.
So there is a temporary solution to support events that don't implement INotifyPropertyChanged.
Note related to Dynamin Data
The demo is using Dynamic Data, but be carefull that WinWorms supports only binding to BindingList<T>. More info on BindingList.
Routing and Views structure
graph TD;
A[Shell :: IScreen * Form]-->|Route|B[ItemsView :: ItemsViewModel * UC];
A-->|Route|C[ItemsDDView :: ItemsDDViewModel * UC];
B-->|Interaction|D[AskConfirmation * MessageBox];
D-->|Yes > Modal Form|E[ItemTagsView :: ItemTagsViewModel * Form];