How to avoid implementing INotifyPropertyChanged manually

Question

Is there some way to avoid this. I have a lot of classes that are bound to DataGridViews and they are just simple collection of properties with default getter and setter. So

Answer 1

Here is a similar solution to Marc, that has been extended to allow multiple property onpropertychanges and multiple RaiseCanExecuteChanged

simplest example usage

string _firstName;
public string FirstName
{
    get { return _firstName; }
    set { OnPropertyChanged(ref _firstName, value, "FirstName"); }
}

advanced example using multiple property updates and multiple commands

string _firstName;
public string FirstName
{
    get { return _firstName; }
    set { OnPropertyChanged(ref _firstName, value, "FirstName", "FullName", Command1, Command2); }
}

The advanced example calls OnProperty changed on firstname and fullname and also calls RaiseCanExecuteChanged for command1 and command2

base ViewModel code

protected void OnPropertyChanged<T>(ref T field, T value, params object[] updateThese)
{
    if (!EqualityComparer<T>.Default.Equals(field, value))
    {
        field = value;
        OnPropertyChanged(updateThese);
    }
}

protected void OnPropertyChanged(params object[] updateThese)
{
    if (PropertyChanged != null)
    {
        foreach (string property in updateThese.Where(property => property is string))
            PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(property));

        foreach (DelegateCommand<object> command in updateThese.Where(property => property is DelegateCommand<object>))
            command.RaiseCanExecuteChanged();
    }
}