Question

I have a property in a code-behind class to which I want to bind my Label control:

    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        this.Label1Content = "some text";
    }

    public string Label1Content { get; set; }

But the binding fails. Obviously I am missing something in the binding configuration, but I don’t know what. I know how to bind this property using C#, but how do I bind it using XAML and without declaring DataContext?

Answer 1

If you don’t want to declare a datacontext anywhere, you could use

<Label Content="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor, AncestorType=Window}, Path=Label1Content}" />