Question

I need to bind a property of a UserControl directly to another control, rather than any specific property on that control. What’s the best way to achieve this? I’ve tried various combinations of the Binding properties to no avail.

For some context, the UserControlhas a Next property that specifies which control is next in the navigation hierarchy; it’s similar to TabIndex but for context sensitive navigation.

<c:MyControl x:Name="First" Next="{Binding ???}" />
<c:MyControl x:Name="Second" />

From reading the docs, I assumed I should’ve been able to do: {Binding Source=Second, BindsDirectlyToSource=True}, but that didn’t work.

Answer 1

The ElementName property is your friend