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

21.3. The Last Word

Views are the final piece in the data binding puzzle. They're an invaluable extra layer that sits between your data and the elements that display it, allowing you to manage your position in a collection and giving you the flexibility to implement filtering, sorting, and grouping. In every data binding scenario, there's a view at work. The only difference is whether it's acting behind the scenes or whether you're explicitly taking control of it with code.

You've now considered all the key principles of data binding (and a bit more besides). In the following chapter, you look at three controls that give you still more options for presenting and editing bound data: the ListView, TreeView, and DataGrid.