Question

How to bind a Listbox in silverlight with DataContext option.I want to have a resource defined in the Usercontrol and want to use it as a static resource List box control.

Answer 1

You bind the ItemsSource:

<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding ElementName=MyDataSource, Path=Data }">
    <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <TextBlock Text="{Binding MyDescription}" />
        </DataTemplate>
    </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

and define a DataSource called “MyDataSource”:

<riaControls:DomainDataSource x:Name="MyDataSource"...

</riaControls:DomainDataSource>