Windows 8 XAML Primer

CHAPTER 2

Data Binding

Data binding is often thought of as an advanced topic, but there really is no reason for that. Data binding is

• Critical to writing XAML applications
• Not very difficult to learn
• A very powerful technique

The basic idea behind data binding couldn’t be simpler: you are going to provide values to UIElements based on the values of objects or of other UIElements.

Note  UIElement is a base class for most of the objects that have a visual appearance and can process input in Windows 8 applications.

Binding to Objects

Let’s ...