4.6. Where Are We?
Fundamentally, data binding is about keeping data in one
placee.g., a property on an objectin sync with data in another placee.g., a
property on a control. In this chapter, we've traveled the length and breadth
of the data-binding engine that supports this fundamental notion, and a great
many of the implications as well, including item and list data sources in
object and XML data formats, item and list data targets, managing the current
item, value conversion, sorting, filtering, data templates, and even
master-detail relationships.
The thorough support for data binding at every level of WPF
makes it a first-class feature in a way that data binding has never been
before. You'll find that it permeates pretty much every aspect of your WPF
programming, including styles, which is the topic of the next chapter.
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