Binding UI Elements with the Binding
Markup Extension
You perform data-binding between a user control and a data source via the Binding
XAML markup extension. Such an extension requires specifying two properties: ElementName
, which is the source item name and Path
that is the property containing the actual data to bind, whose name must be exposed by the object assigned to ElementName
. The following example, in which you have to substitute to the first TextBox
in the earlier example, shows how to bind the context of a TextBox
to the value of a Slider
control so that when the user moves the selector, the slider value is reflected into the TextBox
:
Binding
has to be applied to the property that will present bound data, in this case Text
. If you ...
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