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WPF: A Nice View BreadCrumb Manager

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16 Mar 2010CPOL20 min read 131.2K   3K   105  
A re-usable breadcrumb control for WPF.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Media;

namespace BreadCrumbControl
{
    public class WrappedIBreadCrumbView : INotifyPropertyChanged
    {
        private IBreadCrumbView breadCrumbItem;
        private VisualBrush breadCrumbItemAsBrush;


        public IBreadCrumbView BreadCrumbItem
        {
            get { return breadCrumbItem; }
            set
            {
                breadCrumbItem = value;
                NotifyChanged("BreadCrumbItem");
            }
        }

        public VisualBrush BreadCrumbItemAsBrush
        {
            get { return breadCrumbItemAsBrush; }
            set
            {
                breadCrumbItemAsBrush = value;
                NotifyChanged("BreadCrumbItemAsBrush");
            }
        }

        #region INotifyPropertyChanged Implementation

        /// <summary>
        /// Occurs when any properties are changed on this object.
        /// </summary>
        public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;


        /// <summary>
        /// A helper method that raises the PropertyChanged event for a property.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="propertyNames">The names of the properties that changed.</param>
        protected virtual void NotifyChanged(params string[] propertyNames)
        {
            foreach (string name in propertyNames)
            {
                OnPropertyChanged(new PropertyChangedEventArgs(name));
            }
        }



        /// <summary>
        /// Raises the PropertyChanged event.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="e">Event arguments.</param>
        protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged(PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            if (this.PropertyChanged != null)
            {
                this.PropertyChanged(this, e);
            }
        }

        #endregion

    }
}

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