Question

I’m trying to display the value of a slider control in a TextBlock. However I keep getting a NullRerferenceException when I try to load the dialog.

public partial class GeneralSettingsDialog : Window
{

    public GeneralSettingsDialog()
    {  
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void DistSlider_ValueChanged(object sender, RoutedPropertyChangedEventArgs<double> e)
    {
        DistTextBlock.Text = DistSlider.Value.ToString();
    }
}

XAML:

        <TabItem Header="Miscellaneous" Name="tabItem1" Background="#FFF0F0F0">
            <Grid Height="230" Background="#FFF0F0F0">
                <TextBlock Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="13,13,0,0" Name="textBlock1" Text="Spacing" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
                <Slider Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" IsSnapToTickEnabled="True" TickPlacement="BottomRight" Margin="13,35,0,0" Name="DistSlider" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="100" Interval="1" Maximum="50" Minimum="1" ValueChanged="DistSlider_ValueChanged" />
                <TextBlock Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="111,35,0,0" Name="DistTextBlock" Text="TextBlock" VerticalAlignment="Top" />

            </Grid>
        </TabItem>

Answer 1

Not exactly sure why your way isn’t working, I guess the controls are not fully initialized when the first value changed event is thrown. But you can do it that way directly in xaml without any code behind:

in TextBlock bind directly to the slider’s current value and remove the value changed event handler:

 Text="{Binding ElementName=DistSlider, Path=Value}"

PS:

When you attach to the slider’s value changed event in codebehind after InitializeComponent() your approach should also work fine:

public MainWindow()
{
  InitializeComponent();
  DistSlider.ValueChanged +=new RoutedPropertyChangedEventHandler<double>(DistSlider_ValueChanged);
}

private void DistSlider_ValueChanged(object sender, RoutedPropertyChangedEventArgs<double> e)
{
    DistTextBlock.Text = DistSlider.Value.ToString();
}