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Asked: 2026-06-06T02:35:31+00:00

Short and simple question. In Winforms you can bind a dataview to a combobox

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Short and simple question. In Winforms you can bind a dataview to a combobox or some other control by simply:

combobox.DataSource = dataview
combobox.DisplayMember = "Something"

In WPF I’ve generally done databinding using an ObservableCollection and edits to the xaml. Is there a way to quickly do it, like the above?

Edit:
This seems to be the simplest/quickest thing I can come up with, anything inherently wrong with it?

combobox.ItemSource = dataview
combobox.DisplayMemberPath = "Something"
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  1. Editorial Team

    You can set binding programmatically, although, per my understanding of the MVVM pattern, the best practice is to set binding in the View (xaml) not the ViewModel or View code-behind.

    How to set binding programmatically:

    Binding myBinding = new Binding("Name");
myBinding.Source = dataview // data source from your example

combobox.DisplayMemberPath = "Something"
combobox.SetBinding(ComboBox.ItemsSourceProperty, myBinding);

    With this, when your dataview is updated, the updates will be shown in your ComboBox.

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