Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4

19.1. Binding to a Database with Custom Objects

When developers hear the term data binding, they often think of one specific application—pulling information out of a database and showing it onscreen with little or no code.

As you saw in Chapter 8, data binding in WPF is a much more general tool. Even if your application never comes into contact with a database, it's still likely to use data binding to automate the way elements interact or translate an object model into a suitable display.

However, you can learn a lot about the details of object binding by considering a traditional example that queries and updates a table in a database. In this chapter, you'll use an example that retrieves a catalog of products. The first step in building this ...