Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5

Additional Tips

Let's take a look at some additional miscellaneous data binding tips that you may find useful when binding to data.

Visual Studio Data Binding Expression Builder

As mentioned in Chapter 2, Visual Studio 2010 provides a data binding expression builder (from the Properties window), which can be of help when learning how to write data binding expressions. This data binding expression builder will lead you through the process of creating a data binding expression.

To open the Visual Studio Data Binding Expression Builder, select the target control in the designer, find the target property that you want to bind to in the Properties window, and click the Advanced Properties icon next to its name. Select the Apply Data Binding menu item ...