21.1. The View Object
When you bind a collection (or a DataTable) to an ItemsControl, a data view is quietly created behind the scenes. This view sits between your data source and the bound control. The data view is a window into your data source. It tracks the current item, and it supports features such as sorting, filtering, and grouping. These features are independent of the data object itself, which means you can bind the same data in different ways in different portions of a window (or different parts of your application). For example, you could bind the same collection of products to two different lists but filter them to show different records.
The view object that's used depends on the type of data object. All views derive from CollectionView, ...
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