Get notification from WPF dependency system

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This is valuable information on hooking into DP system of WPF.

The answer is DependencyPropertyDescriptor. This is similar to PropertyDescriptor from WinForm.

https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.dependencypropertydescriptor_members.aspx

For example, if you want to get notification whenever a property change but you don't own the code and you don't derive from the class and it does not expose SomethingChanged event. How can you get notification.

DependencyPropertyDescriptor dpDes = DependencyPropertyDescriptor.FromProperty(Control.BackgroundProperty);
dpDes.AddValueChanged(myElement, myEventHandler);

So whenever someone do a SetValue/ResetValue/ClearValue on myElement.Background, myEventHandler will be raised. When you are done listening to change notification, you can do RemoveValueChanged(..) to unsubscribe.

BenCon was talking about this as well :-)