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I want to show a live clock in my WPF project. I'm using the MVVM pattern. The problem is that the clock is not shown. I debugged _currentTime and it was getting a time value every second. How can I fix it?

What I have tried:

The ViewModel is:
MainPageViewModel
public class MainPageViewModel : INotifyPropertyChanged
    {
        private string _currentTime;
        private string _currentDate;
        public string currentTime
        {
            get
            {
                return _currentTime;
            }
            set
            {
                _currentTime = value;
                OnPropertyChanged("currentTime");
            }
        }

        public MainPageViewModel()
        {
            #region RealTime Clock
            System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer Timer = new System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer();

            Timer.Tick += new EventHandler(Timer_Click);

            Timer.Interval = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 1);

            Timer.Start();
            #endregion
        }
        #region RealTime Clock
        public void Timer_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            DateTime d;
            d = DateTime.Now;
            _currentTime = string.Format("{0}:{1}:{2}", d.Hour.ToString("00"), d.Minute.ToString("00"), d.Second.ToString("00"));
        }
        #endregion


The view is:
MainWindow.xaml

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<Label Grid.Column="4" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Name="Clock" Foreground="WhiteSmoke" Opacity="0.7" VerticalAlignment="Center" Content="{Binding currentTime}" />
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Behind code for the MainView is:
C#
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        MainPageViewModel mvm = new MainPageViewModel();
        this.DataContext = mvm;
    }
}
Posted
Updated 25-Apr-22 22:28pm

1 solution

The problem is here:
_currentTime = string.Format("{0}:{1}:{2}", d.Hour.ToString("00"), d.Minute.ToString("00"), d.Second.ToString("00"));

You're setting the backing value of the property directly, rather than setting the property itself. You need to change this to:
currentTime = string.Format("{0}:{1}:{2}", d.Hour.ToString("00"), d.Minute.ToString("00"), d.Second.ToString("00"));

When you call the setter on the property, that's going to both update the _currentTime field but more importantly it's going to raise the PropertyChanged event. It's this event that's necessary for a WPF binding to know that the value has changed.
 
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