WPF - Assign Enum Value To Prism's RegionName Directly-CodePudding

I am using Prism, this is a chunk of .xaml code of the main window

<mah:MetroWindow
    x:Class="ProjectName.Views.MainWindow"
    xmlns:mah="http://metro.mahapps.com/winfx/xaml/controls"
    xmlns:prism="http://prismlibrary.com/">
        
    <ContentControl
        prism:RegionManager.RegionName="CenterRegion" />
        
</mah:MetroWindow>

I have grouped all regions' names in an Enum UiRegion, And now, I want to rename some of the values in UiRegion, but renaming will not affect the strings in .xaml! Hence, I have to change them manually.. So I've tried to change the .xaml code to something like this

<ContentControl
    prism:RegionManager.RegionName="{x:Static model:UiRegion.CenterRegion}" />

But it gives a runtime error at InitializeComponent();

'CenterRegion' is not a valid value for property 'RegionName'.

My Question is: Is there a way to fix this? and if not, is there another way to update .xaml code when renaming UiRegion values?

CodePudding user response：

Enums don't work directly, but classes do:

code:

public static class RegionNames
{
    public const string MAIN_REGION = "mainregion";
    public const string DETAILS_REGION = "someotherfunnyidentifier";
}

xaml:

<ContentControl prism:RegionManager.RegionName="{x:Static constants:RegionNames.MAIN_REGION}" />

CodePudding user response：

I am not using Prism, but I will assume that the RegionName property is of type String. But you want to assign an Enum value to a string. x:Static (just like StaticResource and DynamicResource) does not perform type conversion. To convert, you need to use Binding.
I think the assignment will happen without error if done like this:

<ContentControl
    prism:RegionManager.RegionName="{Binding Source={x:Static model:UiRegion.CenterRegion}}" />