WPF container to turn all child controls to read-only

Question

I would like to have a WPF container (panel, user control, etc.) that exposes a property to turn all children to read-only if set. This should pretty much be like setting a pare

Answer 1

You may do this with an attached property that provides value inheritance:

public class ReadOnlyPanel
{
    public static readonly DependencyProperty IsReadOnlyProperty =
        DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached(
            "IsReadOnly", typeof(bool), typeof(ReadOnlyPanel),
            new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(false,
                FrameworkPropertyMetadataOptions.Inherits, ReadOnlyPropertyChanged));

    public static bool GetIsReadOnly(DependencyObject o)
    {
        return (bool)o.GetValue(IsReadOnlyProperty);
    }

    public static void SetIsReadOnly(DependencyObject o, bool value)
    {
        o.SetValue(IsReadOnlyProperty, value);
    }

    private static void ReadOnlyPropertyChanged(
        DependencyObject o, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (o is TextBox)
        {
            ((TextBox)o).IsReadOnly = (bool)e.NewValue;
        }
        // other types here
    }
}

You would use it in XAML like this:

<StackPanel local:ReadOnlyPanel.IsReadOnly="{Binding IsChecked, ElementName=cb}">
    <CheckBox x:Name="cb" Content="ReadOnly"/>
    <TextBox Text="Hello"/>
</StackPanel>