Question

This works

<Border>
    <StackPanel>
        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Foo.Info1}" />
        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Foo.Info2}" />
    </StackPanel>
</Border>

but this doesn’t

<Border DataContext="Foo">
    <StackPanel>
        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Info1}" />
        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Info2}" />
    </StackPanel>
</Border>

My understanding is the if you set datacontext for a parent, the children would be able to bind to the properties. Is Border not a good element to be a parent?
I’m very new to data binding in XAML. Can someone tell me why the second snipped doesn’t work and point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

Use

<Border DataContext="{Binding Foo}"> 

Without binding the datacontext of your border is just “Foo” string, which doesn’t have any Info1, Info2 properties

Hope this helps