Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5

C H A P T E R  11

Advanced Data Binding

So far in this book, you've learned how to bind your user interface controls to objects so that the user can view and edit data exposed by these objects. Instead of data being pushed into these controls, the extensive data binding support provided by XAML enables controls to pull the data into themselves. In other words, the controls are essentially controlling the process of consuming the data. You've learned that

• The object assigned to the DataContext property of a control is inherited down the object hierarchy.
• There are three different binding modes: OneTime, OneWay, and TwoWay (discussed in Chapter 2). You need to set the mode to TwoWay to update the bound object property via a control in the user ...