MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF

Binding to DataContext[DC]

• A DependencyProperty defined in FrameworkElement which supports containment inheritance in the visual hierarchy
• For ItemsControl bound to a collection source, individual element's DC is automatically set as single item of collection

  {Binding}: binds directly to DC.
  {Binding Path="P1"}: binds to property P1 in the DC.
  {Binding Path="P2.P1"}: binds to P1 property of P2 in DC
  

Resources

• Identified by unique key, implicit or explicit [x:Key directive].
• Can be created/overwritten in the Resources section for a FrameworkElement/FrameworkContentElement or Application. Can also be defined in Resource Dictionaries and merged with Application resources.
• Recommended creation at the minimum level possible.
• Binding.Source uses them with ...