Can I somehow temporarily disable WPF data binding changes?

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This extension of ObservableCollection solves the problem easily.

It exposes a public SupressNotification property to allow the user to control when CollectionChanged notification will be suppressed.

It does not offer range insertion/deletion, but if CollectionChanged notification is suppressed, the need to do range operation on the collection diminishes in most of the cases.

This implementation substitutes all suppressed notifications with a Reset notification. This is logically sensible. When the user suppresses the notification, do bulk changes and then re-enable it, it should appropriate to send a Resent notification. 

public class ObservableCollectionEx<T> : ObservableCollection<T>
{
    private bool _notificationSupressed = false;
    private bool _supressNotification = false;
    public bool SupressNotification
    {
        get
        {
            return _supressNotification;
        }
        set
        {
            _supressNotification = value;
            if (_supressNotification == false && _notificationSupressed)
            {
                this.OnCollectionChanged(new NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs(NotifyCollectionChangedAction.Reset));
                _notificationSupressed = false;
            }
        }
    }

    protected override void OnCollectionChanged(NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (SupressNotification)
        {
            _notificationSupressed = true;
            return;
        }
        base.OnCollectionChanged(e);
    }
}

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