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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition
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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

by Andrew Troelsen
May 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1752 pages
41h 17m
English
Apress
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28.9. Introducing the WPF Data-Binding Model

Controls are often the target of various data-binding operations. Simply put, data binding is the act of connecting control properties to data values that might change over the course of your application's lifetime. Doing so lets a user interface element display the state of a variable in your code. For example, you might use data binding to accomplish the following:

  • Check a CheckBox control based on a Boolean property of a given object.

  • Display data in DataGrid objects from a relational database table.

  • Connect a Label to an integer that represents the number of files in a folder.

When you use the intrinsic WPF data-binding engine, you must be aware of the distinction between the source and the destination ...

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