XAML Developer Reference

Data Templating, Conversion, and Validation

Consider a simple example of a ListBox bound to the CompanyName column of a table named Customers. The following is the XAML markup for the example:

<Grid Height="383" Width="508">
    <ListBox Height="155" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="12,29,0,0"
     Name="listBox1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="202" ItemsSource="{Binding}">
    </ListBox>
    <TextBlock Height="22" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="12,0,0,0"
    Name="textBlock1" Text="Company Name" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="146" />
</Grid>

The code-behind class logic is as follows:

using System; . . . using Silverlight_and_Data.NorthwindServiceReference; namespace Silverlight_and_Data { public partial class MainPage : Page { public MainPage() { InitializeComponent(); ...