Dashboard.ItemCollectionChanged Event

Occurs after the collection of dashboard items has been changed.

Namespace: DevExpress.DashboardCommon

Assembly: DevExpress.Dashboard.v24.1.Core.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Dashboard.Core

Declaration

C#

public event EventHandler<NotifyingCollectionChangedEventArgs<DashboardItem>> ItemCollectionChanged

VB.NET

Public Event ItemCollectionChanged As EventHandler(Of NotifyingCollectionChangedEventArgs(Of DashboardItem))

Event Data

The ItemCollectionChanged event's data class is NotifyingCollectionChangedEventArgs<DashboardItem>. The following properties provide information specific to this event:

Property	Description
AddedItems	Gets items added to the NotifyingCollection<T>.
RemovedItems	Gets items removed from the NotifyingCollection<T>.

Remarks

The ItemCollectionChanged event is raised after dashboard items are added to or removed from the Dashboard.Items collection.

Use the event parameter’s NotifyingCollectionChangedEventArgs`1.AddedItems and NotifyingCollectionChangedEventArgs`1.RemovedItems properties to determine which dashboard items have been added or removed, respectively.

The following code logs the DashboardItem information when a DashboardItem is added, deleted or duplicated.

C#

private void DashboardDesigner1_DashboardLoaded(object sender, DevExpress.DashboardWin.DashboardLoadedEventArgs e)
{
    e.Dashboard.ItemCollectionChanged += Dashboard_ItemCollectionChanged;
}

private void Dashboard_ItemCollectionChanged(object sender, NotifyingCollectionChangedEventArgs<DashboardItem> e)
{
    Dashboard dBoard = sender as Dashboard;
    if (e.AddedItems.Count > 0)
    {
        if (e.AddedItems.Count == 1 && dBoard.Items.Count(i => i.Name == e.AddedItems[0].Name) > 1)
            AddToLog("Duplicated", e.AddedItems);
        else
            AddToLog("Added", e.AddedItems);
    }
    if (e.RemovedItems.Count > 0)
    {
        AddToLog("Removed", e.RemovedItems);
    }
}

VB.NET

Private Sub DashboardDesigner1_DashboardLoaded(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DevExpress.DashboardWin.DashboardLoadedEventArgs)
    AddHandler e.Dashboard.ItemCollectionChanged, AddressOf Dashboard_ItemCollectionChanged
End Sub

Private Sub Dashboard_ItemCollectionChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As NotifyingCollectionChangedEventArgs(Of DashboardItem))
    Dim dBoard As Dashboard = TryCast(sender, Dashboard)
    If e.AddedItems.Count > 0 Then
        If e.AddedItems.Count = 1 AndAlso dBoard.Items.Count(Function(i) i.Name = e.AddedItems(0).Name) > 1 Then
            AddToLog("Duplicated", e.AddedItems)
        Else
            AddToLog("Added", e.AddedItems)
        End If
    End If
    If e.RemovedItems.Count > 0 Then
        AddToLog("Removed", e.RemovedItems)
    End If
End Sub