Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Summary

The data-binding is a key concept in every kind of application, and this is true for WPF, too. In the first part of this chapter, you learned how to apply data-binding to simple controls with the Binding markup extension in XAML code, to bind some properties to the value of other controls or to a .NET data source. For this, you got an overview of the DataGrid control and of the ObservableCollection(Of T) generic class (which you already studied), this time applied to WPF. You found out how the DataGrid supports the two-way data-binding also due to the underlying support for the technique offered by the ObservableCollection. The second part of the chapter covered the drag and drop data-binding and how easily you can create data forms. ...