Workaround For When Textbox Border Remains After Expander is Closed When Using ValidatesOnDataErrors or DataErrorValidationRule

Recently hit a WPF issue with IDataErrorInfo where using ValidatesOnDataErrors with a TextBox creates a border around the textbox that doesn’t go away when used with an Expander. Screen shot below before closing expander:

Screenshot after closing expander:

The workaround? Create a style for Textbox (or TextboxBase, depending) which blows away the validation error template like this:

<Setter Property="Validation.ErrorTemplate" Value="{x:Null}"/>

And then manually sets the border, like this:

<Setter Property="ToolTip"
Value="{Binding RelativeSource={x:Static RelativeSource.Self},
Path=(Validation.Errors)[0].ErrorContent}"/>
<Setter TargetName="Border" Property="Background" Value="Red"/>
</Trigger>

That did the trick. Download a complete sample of the fix.

Posted on February 3, 2009 15:12
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henry

February 2, 2009 14:24

treading man

henry cheund

February 2, 2009 19:25

tread man

Caleb Vear

February 11, 2009 01:14

The other thing you could have done is just wrap the content of the expander in an AdornerDecorator. The border is drawn in the adorner layer, and by default a window only has one adorner layer. Adding the AdornerDecorator will add a new adorner layer which will have its visibility controlled by the expander.