Easily enable databindings on a ToolStripButton

I was developping an application lately and I needed to bind the “Enabled” property of a ToolStripButton to my Presenter. I failed to find any “DataSource” or “DataBindings” property. I then decided to make my own button without reinventing the wheel to enable this capability.

Here’s this simple class:

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public class ToolStripBindableButton : ToolStripButton, IBindableComponent
{
    private ControlBindingsCollection dataBindings;

    private BindingContext bindingContext;

    public ControlBindingsCollection DataBindings
    {
        get
        {
            if(dataBindings == null) dataBindings = new ControlBindingsCollection(this);
            return dataBindings;
        }
    }

    public BindingContext BindingContext
    {
        get
        {
            if(bindingContext == null) bindingContext = new BindingContext();
            return bindingContext;
         }
        set { bindingContext = value; }
    }
}

Once you include this simple class inside your project/solution… you can easily convert any ToolStripButton into our new ToolStripBindableButton.

And I solved my problem like this:

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myBindableButton.DataBindings.Add("Enabled", myPresenter, "CanDoSomething");