Question

This may be a very simple question, but at the moment I don’t actually know what to google.

If I had an object like this:

public class Employee
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
}

In my VM I have a list of employees (public List<Employee> Employees). It’s easy to bind this in my Xaml to a ListBox:

<ListBox ItemsSource={Binding Employees}">
    <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <StackPanel>
                <TextBlock Text="{Binding FirstName}"/>
                <TextBlock Text="{Binding LastName}"/>
            </StackPanel>
        </DataTemplate>
    </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

But what if my list of employees would contain strings and not Employee objects? How could I bind these string values to the TextBlock in the data template?

Answer 1

Just write {Binding} where you specify the binding.