Listening to DependencyProperty changes in Silverlight

   The dependency property system is a pretty nice concept. Receiving notifications for dependency property changes on an existing object is a very common scenario in order to update my view model or the UI.

This is quite easy in WPF:

// get the property descriptor
DependencyPropertyDescriptor prop = DependencyPropertyDescriptor.FromProperty(TextBox.TextProperty, myTextBox.GetType());

// add change handler
prop.AddValueChanged(myTextBox, (sender, args) =>
{

});

Unfortunately Silverlight has a limited set of meta-data functionality around the dependency property system, because the DependencyPropertyDescriptor does exist in Silverlight.

In order to get a workaround I found a solution in which I get notified with help of the binding system. I simple use a relay object which value property is bound to the source property I want to get notified. The relay object contains a public event which raises when the value changes.

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