MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF

Using binding reflector

Although attached behaviors seem to solve the limitation of binding to a binding target that isn't a dependency property, the approach can be less appealing if there are a large number of properties that we need to bind to. If we are using attached behaviors then we need to define an attached behavior for each property for each type of control we are using in our application. This can end up being a lot of work if we are using a lot of third-party controls and it would be nice if there was a simpler approach that required less coding and hence less maintenance. Fortunately, the binding reflector technique can come to our rescue.

We know the requirement that a binding target has to be DependencyProperty but the requirements ...