Silverlight 5 in Action

Chapter 16. Binding

 

This chapter covers

• Mastering binding with a binding source
• Binding UI elements together
• Using value converters
• Creating data templates

 

If I included a top-three list of the most important features to learn in depth in Silverlight or WPF, binding would be on that list. Binding—specifically, data binding—tends to conjure up images of the old Visual Basic VCR control bound directly to tables in an Access database, mishandled lost-focus events, and circular validation problems. In more recent times, binding tends to be associated with specialized data controls on web forms. In both cases, binding is associated with traditional business or application data on its way to or from a persistent data store.

Though binding ...