Binding Enabled property of Control

Question

Is there any way to bind the Enabled property of a WPF control to an object property similar to the way you can bind the content of a control.

Answer 1

Have got this to work now using

IsEnabled="{Binding Path=CanEditProperty}"

CanEditProperty is based on value of another property. Need to call OnPropertyChanged within property on which CanEditProperty is based.

Answer 2

You can bind the IsEnable to bool type DependencyProperty.

For example:
XAML

<Window x:Class="IsEnabled_trigger_20081215.Window1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:IsEnabled_trigger_20081215"
    Title="Window1"    Name="win1" Height="298" Width="466"  >
    <Grid Height="209" Width="405">
        <ListView Name="lv" Margin="12,58,12,12">
            <ListView.View>
                <GridView>
                    <GridViewColumn Header="Delete">
                        <GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
                            <DataTemplate>
                                <Button Width="85" Content="Delete"     x:Name="btnDelete">
                                    <Button.IsEnabled>
       <Binding ElementName="win1" Path="IsModifyAllowed"/>
                                    </Button.IsEnabled> 
                                </Button>
                            </DataTemplate>
                        </GridViewColumn.CellTemplate> 
                    </GridViewColumn>
                    <GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding= 
                                "{Binding Path=FirstName}"  
                            Header="First Name" Width="100"/>
                    <GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding= 
                                "{Binding Path=LastName}"  
                            Header="Last Name" Width="100"/>
                    <GridViewColumn DisplayMemberBinding= 
                                "{Binding Path=EmployeeNumber}"  
                            Header="Employee No." Width="100"/>
                </GridView>
            </ListView.View>
        </ListView>
        <Button Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="12,20,0,0" Name="button1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="75" Click="button1_Click">Enable</Button>
        <Button Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="93,20,0,0" Name="button2" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="75" Click="button2_Click">Disable</Button>
    </Grid>
</Window>

C#

using System;
using System.Windows;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.ComponentModel;
namespace IsEnabled_trigger_20081215
{
  
    public partial class Window1 : Window
    { 
         public DependencyProperty IsModifyAllowedProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("IsModifyAllowed", typeof(Boolean), typeof(Window1), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata());
        public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
        public bool IsModifyAllowed
        {
            get
            { 
                return (bool)GetValue( IsModifyAllowedProperty) ;
            }
            set
            {
                SetValue(IsModifyAllowedProperty, value)  ;
                NotifyPropertyChanged("IsModifyAllowed");
            }
        }
        private void NotifyPropertyChanged(String info)
        {
            if ( PropertyChanged != null)
            {
                PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(info));
            } 
        } 
        public Employees GetEmployees()
        {
            Employees a = new Employees();
            a.Add(new EmployeeInfo("Jesper", "Aaberg", "12345" ));
            a.Add(new EmployeeInfo("Dominik", "Paiha", "98765" ));
            a.Add(new EmployeeInfo("Yale", "Li", "23875" ));
            a.Add(new EmployeeInfo("Muru", "Subramani", "49392"  ));
            return a;
        }
        public Window1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            Employees a = GetEmployees();
            lv.ItemsSource = a; 
        }
        private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            IsModifyAllowed = true;
        }
        private void button2_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            IsModifyAllowed = false;
        }
    }
    public class EmployeeInfo
    {
        private string _firstName;
        private string _lastName;
        private string _employeeNumber;
        public string FirstName
        {
            get { return _firstName; }
            set { _firstName = value; }
        }
        public string LastName
        {
            get { return _lastName; }
            set { _lastName = value; }
        }
        public string EmployeeNumber
        {
            get { return _employeeNumber; }
            set { _employeeNumber = value; }
        }
        public EmployeeInfo(string firstname, string lastname, string empnumber)
        {
            _firstName = firstname;
            _lastName = lastname;
            _employeeNumber = empnumber;
        }
    }
    public class Employees : ObservableCollection<EmployeeInfo>
    {
        public Employees()
        {
        } 
    }
}