Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Introducing the Data-Binding

Windows Presentation Foundation offers a powerful data-binding engine, held by the System.Windows.Data namespace, which makes even simpler binding data to the user interface and receiving input from the user as well. At a higher level you perform data-binding between a user control and a data source making use of the Binding markup extension, that lots of controls enable. It is worth mentioning that in WPF a data source can be a collection of .NET objects but also a property from another user control. The following examples show you both scenarios. Particularly you receive an explanation of the new DataGrid control for tabular data representations and the ObservableCollection(Of T) in action for binding to a collection. ...