Binding to a single object
Although element to element binding is occasionally useful, the classic data binding scenario involves an element bound to pure data. One of the benefits of this kind of binding is a decoupling of data from the way it's presented (if at all). All later changes are performed on the data only, letting the binding take care of updating whatever elements are bound to this data. In this recipe, we'll look at binding to a single data object.
Getting ready
Make sure Visual Studio is up and running.
How to do it...
We'll create some controls that bind to a single Person
object, showing the basics of element to data binding.
- Create a new WPF application named
CH06.SingleObjectBinding
. - Open
MainWindow.xaml
. Change the existingGrid ...
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