Binding to a Collection of Objects
Binding to a single object is straightforward. But life gets more interesting when you need to bind to some collection of objects—for example, all the products in a table.
Although every dependency property supports the single-value binding you've seen so far, collection binding requires an element with a bit more intelligence. In Silverlight, every control that displays a list of items derives from ItemsControl. To support collection binding, the ItemsControl class defines the key properties listed in Table 20-2.
At this point, you're probably wondering what types of collections you can stuff in the ItemsSource ...
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