Question

i have a custom dependecyobject created in xaml and i would like to bind the whole instance of it to a property of another custom dependecyobject. all that is happening inside a control.
As example something like this

class row : dependencyobject
{
   // this is a dp property
   public static readonly dependencyproperty widthproperty = dependencyproperty.register...
}

class cell : dependencyobject
{

   public static readonly dependencyproperty dataproperty = dependencyproperty.register....
}

class customGridView:Control
{
  List<Row>Rows { get;set;}
  List<Cell> Cells { get;set;}
}

and now i would like to bind an instance of a row to cell.data property, also something like this:

<customGridView>
 <row x:name:row1 width=200/> (this is a class that derives for dependencyobject)
 <row .../>
 <cell data={Binding ElementName=row1}/> (this is another class that derives from dependencyobj and tries to bind to entire instance of row class)
 <cell ..../>
 <cell ..../>
</customGridView/>

any help?

as desired this is the dp property of cell.data:

 public Row Data
    {
        get { return (Row)GetValue(DataProperty); }
        set { SetValue(DataProperty, value); }
    }

    // Using a DependencyProperty as the backing store for ColumnName.  This enables animation, styling, binding, etc...
    public static readonly DependencyProperty DataProperty=
        DependencyProperty.Register("Data", typeof(Row), typeof(Cell), new PropertyMetadata(null));

Answer 1

Now I got your Problem do it like this

  <cell.data>
    <x:Reference Name="row1"/>
  </cell.data>