Question

XAML

<TextBlock Grid.Column="1"
                   Height="37"
                   Margin="8,17,0,0"
                   HorizontalAlignment="Left"
                   VerticalAlignment="Top"
                   FontSize="20"
                   Text="{Binding Contact.Name,
                                  UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}" />

C# Code behind XAML

public partial class Conversation : Window
{

    private Friend _Contact;
    public Friend Contact
    {
        get
        {
            return _Contact;
        }
        set
        {
            _Contact = value;
            OnPropertyChanged ( "Contact" );
        }
    }


    #region INotifyPropertyChanged Members

    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

    void OnPropertyChanged ( string propName )
    {
        if ( this . PropertyChanged != null )
            this . PropertyChanged (
                this , new PropertyChangedEventArgs ( propName ) );
    }

    #endregion


    public Conversation ( Friend _Friend )
    {
        InitializeComponent ( );

        Contact = _Friend;
    }

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}

C# Friend Class

public class Friend : Person
{

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}

C# Person Class

public class Person : INotifyPropertyChanged 
{       

    private string _Name;

    public string Name
    {
        get
        {
            return _Name;
        }
        set
        {
            _Name = value;
            OnPropertyChanged ( "Name" );
        }


    #region INotifyPropertyChanged Members

        public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

        void OnPropertyChanged ( string propName )
        {
                if ( this . PropertyChanged != null )
                this . PropertyChanged ( this , new PropertyChangedEventArgs ( propName ) );
        }

    #endregion


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}

My Question : Why Binding Doesn’t Work ?

Answer 1

Contact needs to be a property rather than a field.

Also, you need to change the binding so that the source is the window class.