How to refresh xmlDataProvider when xml document changes at runtime in WPF?

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Published on 2011-11-23T08:14:22Z Indexed on 2012/10/25 23:01 UTC
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I am trying to make a image viewer/album creator in visual studio, wpf. The image paths for each album is stored in an xml document which i bind to to show the images from each album in a listbox. The problem is when i add a image or an album at runtime and write it to the xml document. I can't seem to make the bindings to the xml document update so they show the new images and albums aswell. Calling Refresh() on the XmlDataProvider doesn't change anything. I don't wish to redo the binding of the XmlDataProvider, just make it read from the same source again.

XAML:

...
<Grid.DataContext>
            <XmlDataProvider x:Name="Images" Source="Data/images.xml" XPath="/albums/album[@name='no album']/image" />
</Grid.DataContext>
...
<Label Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Padding="0" Margin="0,0,0,5" Content="{x:Static resx:Resource.AddImageLabel}"/>
<TextBox Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Name="newImagePath" Margin="0" />
<Button Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="2" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Name="newImagePathButton" Content="{x:Static resx:Resource.BrowseImageButton}" Click="newImagePathButton_Click" />
...
<ListBox Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="4" Grid.Row="3" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Name="thumbnailList" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True" ItemsSource="{Binding BindingGroupName=Images}" SelectedIndex="0" Background="#FFE0E0E0" Height="110">
...

Code behind:

private void newImagePathButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    string imagePath = newImagePath.Text;

    albumCreator.addImage(imagePath, null);

    //Reset import image elements to default
    newImagePath.Text = "";

    //Refresh thumbnail listbox
    Images.Refresh();

    Console.WriteLine("Image added!");
}

public void addImage(string source, XmlElement parent)
{
    if (parent == null)
    {
        //Use default album
        parent = (XmlElement)root.FirstChild;
    }

    //Create image element with source element within
    XmlElement newImage = xmlDoc.CreateElement(null, "image", null);
    XmlElement newSource = xmlDoc.CreateElement(null, "source", null);
    newSource.InnerText = source;
    newImage.AppendChild(newSource);

    //Add image element to parent
    parent.AppendChild(newImage);

    xmlDoc.Save(xmlFile);

}

Thank you very much for any help!

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