Simple binding to a list in WPF

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Learning the ropes of WPF data binding.. What's wrong with the following simple binding?
I have a window with some instances of a user control:

<usercontrol mode="hold" x:class="MyUserCtrl" x:name="CommandRow" xmlns:x="#unknown" /><usercontrol.resources>
  <datatemplate x:key="MyItemListTemplate" xmlns:x="#unknown">
     <stackpanel orientation="Horizontal">
       <Label Content="{Binding Path=ItemName}" />                
       <textbox text="{Binding Path=ItemValue}" />
     </stackpanel>
   </datatemplate>
</usercontrol.resources>
<listbox name="ListBoxParams">
                ItemsSource="{Binding ElementName=CommandRow, Path=_MyItems}"
                ItemTemplate="{StaticResource MyItemListTemplate}" />
</listbox>

and in the code behind the user control has

List<MyItem> _MyItems

Posted 10-Oct-11 21:47pm

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Updated 11-Oct-11 0:12am

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Dave Kerr · Answer 1 · 2011-10-10T23:10:00

Hi,

You need to have a datacontext set properly - unfortunately your code examples have become a little bit garbled, is there any chance you can update the question with a bit more code?

We need to see what the CommandRow object is.

In essence you should have a viewmodel class that contains your commands, the CommandRow should bind to that and so should the list box params - you should try and avoid binding one UI element list source to another, it looks like it shouldn't be needed in this case.

Can I suggest my article on getting started with WPF?

[Getting Started with WPF^]

This explains binding to a list in detail - if you do have to do it the way it appears you are doing it, we're going to need better code samples!

Let me know if I can do anything else to help.