Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook

Chapter 2. An Introduction to Data Binding

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Displaying data in Silverlight applications
• Creating dynamic bindings
• Binding data to another UI element
• Binding collections to UI elements
• Enabling a Silverlight application to automatically update its UI
• Obtaining data from any UI element it is bound to
• Using the different modes of data binding to allow persisting data
• Data binding from Expression Blend 4
• Using Expression Blend 4 for sample data generation

Introduction

Data binding allows us to build data-driven applications in Silverlight in a much easier and much faster way compared to old-school methods of displaying and editing data. This chapter and the following one take a look at how data binding works. We'll start by looking ...