Binding to a Collection
One of the most common uses of data binding is to bind the items of an items control to a collection. You might try to assign a Binding to an items control’s Items property, but, alas, Items is not a dependency property. All items controls expose a separate ItemsSource dependency property that exists specifically for data binding. Therefore, if you have a Page as follows:
<Page ...> <Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}"> <GridView ItemsSource ="{ Binding }"/> </Grid> </Page>
with the following code-behind that sets the data context to a simple array:
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls; namespace Chapter18 { public sealed ...
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