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This article describes how to use <AsString> in ViewModels, instead of the object.asString operator.
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For all but actions, this logic has been replaced with <a href="/Documentation:Databind_labels_in_ViewModels" title="Documentation:Databind labels in ViewModels" data-bs-title="Documentation:Databind_labels_in_ViewModels">Databind labels in ViewModels</a>.
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In many situations, you may want to further detail action names or constraint messages. You can do this by mixing in <AsString> in the presentation or message.
This is described in this article: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external free" href="http://www.capableobjects.com/2013/01/09/action-names/">http://www.capableobjects.com/2013/01/09/action-names/</a>
Note that the <AsString> is used as a pattern to replace and as such, it is case-sensitive.
In Fat-Client WPF, we recently added a way to make the placed Action Buttons in ViewModels bound: <Column:SomeName> in the Presentation of a placed Action button will be interpreted as "Look for ViewModel Column on the same level with name=SomeName" and bind the presentation of the button to this.