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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation Master the art of building modern desktop applications on Windows

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883002
Length 568 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sheridan Yuen Sheridan Yuen
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Preface 1. A Smarter Way of Working with WPF 2. Debugging WPF Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Writing Custom Application Frameworks 4. Becoming Proficient with Data Binding 5. Using the Right Controls for the Job 6. Mastering Practical Animations 7. Creating Visually Appealing User Interfaces 8. Implementing Responsive Data Validation 9. Completing That Great User Experience 10. Improving Application Performance 11. Deploying Your Masterpiece Application 12. What Next?

Data binding basics

In WPF, we use the Binding class to create our bindings. In general, it is fair to say that every binding will contain four constituent parts. The first is the binding source; typically, this will be one of our View Models. The second is the path to the property from the source object that we would like to data bind to.

The third is the binding target; this will typically be a UI control. The fourth is the path to the property of the binding target that we want to bind to. Therefore, if one of our bindings do not work, it is most likely that one of these four things has not been set correctly.

It is important to stress that the target property will typically be from a UI control, because there is a data binding rule that states that the binding target must be a Dependency Property. The properties of most UI controls are Dependency Properties and so, this rule simply enforces that data normally travels in the direction from our View Model data sources to the binding target...

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