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Asked: 2026-05-26T10:27:50+00:00

All, I’m pounding my head against the wall here. What I need is simple,

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All,
I’m pounding my head against the wall here. What I need is simple, and I’m sure there is a simple answer, but I can’t seem to find it.
Situation: I have a Silver light 4.0 app and I’m currently binding a list of strings to an Items control. In the data template for that I have a simple text box that I was doing very basic Binding “{Binding}”. I need to update the binding to be twoway so the edits are automatically pushed back to my datacontext.

Here is the Items control before I update the binding:

<ItemsControl x:Name="spLiftHeader" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=WeekLabels}">
   <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
        <ItemsPanelTemplate>
             <StackPanel x:Name="spLiftHeader" Orientation="Horizontal" />
        </ItemsPanelTemplate>
   </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
   <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
         <DataTemplate>
              **<TextBox x:Name="txtWeekLbl" Text="{Binding}" Foreground="Black" Width="125" TextAlignment="Center"/>**
         </DataTemplate>
    </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>

Here is the items control after the binding change:

<ItemsControl x:Name="spLiftHeader" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=WeekLabels}">
   <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
        <ItemsPanelTemplate>
              <StackPanel x:Name="spLiftHeader" Orientation="Horizontal" />
        </ItemsPanelTemplate>
   </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
   <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            **<TextBox x:Name="txtWeekLbl" Text="{Binding Mode=TwoWay}" Foreground="Black" Width="125" TextAlignment="Center"/>**
        </DataTemplate>
    </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>

I’ve just simply added the “Mode=TwoWay” to the binding.
After updating that, I get the amazingly useless error 4004
“System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException: Provide value on ‘System.Windows.Data.Binding’ threw an exception” and the Line/Position reference points right do my updated Binding.
How does one add the Two Way mode to the simple binding?
Thanks in advance.
Nick

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  1. Editorial Team

    Two-way binding to an entire object (a string in this case) makes no sense to Silverlight so it is correct to throw an exception. Shame it is not a more useful error message 🙂

    When there is no Path in the binding the ItemsControl can fetch a value using Object.ToString(), but where will it store the result back? It can’t replace the string as that would require placing a new string object back in the collection. Two-way binding is done via reflection against a property of an object.

    Instead of a simple list of strings, use a list of some new object that contains a string property and explicitly bind to that property. It will make everything a lot easier. (Make sure your new class and property implement INotifyPropertyChanged).

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