Chapter 6. Blend Data Binding Techniques

The Blend IDE has a number of tools that allow you to connect data values (from a variety of sources) to user interface components. Formally speaking, this process is termed data binding and is supported in both the WPF and Silverlight[52] APIs (although each API has slightly differing levels of data binding support). In this chapter, you will examine a number of Expression Blend data binding techniques, and some related coding techniques as well.

You'll begin by examining the concept of control-to-control data binding operations. As the name suggests, this approach to data binding allows you to connect the value of a source control property to the value of a destination control property in your application. ...

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