Question

I have some stackpanel that have under him 4 textblock that need to show some information.
I do some binding of the stackpanel ( DataContext ) and binding the textblock with the information that will hold by the object that was bind to the stackpanel.

I wrote the code + xaml and nothing work.
I get exception about format wrong.

The code:

 public partial class SomeDemoClass: UserControl
{
    classObjDemo c1;

    public SomeDemoClass()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        c1 = new classObjDemo()
        {
              val1 = 5.5,
              val2 = 2.3
        }; 
    }
 }

The xaml ( that match the class ‘SomeDemoClass’ )

   <StackPanel x:Name="LayoutRoot" DataContext="{Binding ElementName=SomeDemoClass, Path=c1">

      <TextBlock Text="{Binding val1, StringFormat={0:F} }" />
      <TextBlock Text="{Binding val2, StringFormat={0:F} }" />


   </StackPanael>

Answer 1

Of you put x:Name=”SomeDemoClass” in the in the op of your xaml and make c1 a public property instead of a field it would work. ElementName references elements in your xaml by name and binding only works on properties and dependency properties.

<UserControl x:Name="SomeDemoClass" ...

public classObjDemo c1 { get; set; }

Also check your Visual Studio output window for binding errors.

EDIT

Also make sure v1 and v2 of the classObjDemo are public properties

And escape { in your xaml. See http://elegantcode.com/2009/04/07/wpf-stringformat-in-xaml-with-the-stringformat-attribute/

<TextBlock Text="{Binding val2, StringFormat={}{0:F} }" />