Control Library. WPF Tutorial. WPF Data Binding - Part 1. Download source code - 216 KB Introduction Conventionally, in Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications, data binding was primarily used for populating elements on the screen with information; there was simple data binding for displaying single values, and complex data binding for displaying and formatting a collection of data.
The beauty of data binding is that you can populate the interface while writing little to no code. With data binding in WPF you can take data from almost any property of any object and bind it to almost any other dependency property of another object. In the first part of this two part series, I am going to cover the basics of data binding in WPF.