WPF MVVM INotifyPropertyChanged Implementation – Model or ViewModel

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The thing is that if you were following MVVM, you would have a BookViewModel for your Book model class. So you would have a INotifyPropertyChanged implementation on that view model. Exactly for that purpose MVVM exists (but not only).

That being said, the INotifyPropertyChanged has to be implemented on view model classes, not models.

UPDATE: In response to your update and our discussion in comments…

By BookViewModel I meant something else. You need to wrap in this view model not the whole collection of Book objects but an individual Book:

public class BookViewModel : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    private Book book;

    public Book Book {
        get { return book; }    
    }

    public string Title {
        get { return Book.Title; }
        set {
            Book.Title = value;
            NotifyPropertyChanged("Title");
        }         
    }

    public BookViewModel(Book book) {
        this.book = book;
    }

    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

    protected void NotifyPropertyChanged(String info) {
        if (PropertyChanged != null) {
            PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(info));
        }
    }
}

And your BookProvider will return ObservableCollection<BookViewModel> instead of ObservableCollection<Book>:

public class BookProvider
{
    public ObservableCollection<BookViewModel> GetBooks() {
        ObservableCollection<BookViewModel> books = new ObservableCollection<BookViewModel>();

        books.Add(new BookViewModel(new Book {
            Title = "Book1",
            Authors = new List<Author> { new Author { Name = "Joe" }, new Author { Name = "Phil" } }
        }));

        books.Add(new BookViewModel(new Book {
            Title = "Book2",
            Authors = new List<Author> { new Author { Name = "Jane" }, new Author { Name = "Bob" } }
        }));

        return books;
    }
}

As you can see, when you are updating the Title property of the Book you will be doing it through the Title property of the corresponding view model that will raise the PropertyChanged event, which will trigger the UI update.

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