Chapter 2. DataBinding
The view provides two services to the user: presenting data and interacting with data. The former involves reading data and displaying it in a certain format, whereas the latter implies editing existing or adding new data.
This chapter will focus on the methods available to developers for displaying data in WPF or Silverlight controls. We will attempt to remain entirely declarative, binding the controls to data via XAML.
The Power of DataBinding with XAML
In order to facilitate this new paradigm in databinding, the very lowest-level objects have to be enhanced. The functionality of System.Object subclasses, and the vanilla property system afforded to them, was not enough to support the databinding that WPF's developers had ...
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