I was developping an application lately and I needed to bind the "Enabled" property of a ToolStripButton to my Presenter. I failed to find any "DataSource" or "DataBindings" property. I then decided to make my own button without reinventing the wheel to enable this capability.
Here's this simple class:
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace TestProject
{
public class ToolStripBindableButton : ToolStripButton, IBindableComponent
{
private ControlBindingsCollection dataBindings;
private BindingContext bindingContext;
public ControlBindingsCollection DataBindings
{
get
{
if(dataBindings == null) dataBindings = new ControlBindingsCollection(this);
return dataBindings;
}
}
public BindingContext BindingContext
{
get
{
if(bindingContext == null) bindingContext = new BindingContext();
return bindingContext;
}
set { bindingContext = value; }
}
}
}
Once you include this simple class inside your project/solution... you can easily convert any ToolStripButton into our new ToolStripBindableButton.
And I solved my problem like this:
myBindableButton.DataBindings.Add("Enabled", myPresenter, "CanDoSomething");