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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4156665" data-attributes="member: 710">Yes, the debugging often seems to become a lot more difficult. If you're using Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5, it's possible to get the .NET source code for debugging purposes online. (100% legal, but you won't be able to change it, off course.) I haven't tried it yet, since I am still stuck with 2005 and .NET 3.0.How do you want to bind your ObservableCollection? One of the easiest way to do it is to expose the ObservableCollection as a (possibly dependency) property on your control. You can now use a syntax like this[CODE]ItemsSource={Binding ElementName=ControlWithDesiredProperty, Path=ItemCollectionPropertyName}[/CODE]This would assume that you're naming your control in the XAML with x:Name=ControlWithDesiredProperty(x being your &quot;http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml&quot; namespace.)If you go deeper into templating, you will probably use TemplateBinding and RelativeSources in your bindings, and will do without using elementnames. Instead of using the ElementName, you can also set the DataContext to that element (if you have multiple bindings to the same element, this will probably clear up the code...)What usually isn't enough is just setting the ItemsSource property to your desired collection (in code) if you expect the collection itself to be replaced often. (If you use change its contents, it will work fine).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4156665, member: 710"] Yes, the debugging often seems to become a lot more difficult. If you're using Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5, it's possible to get the .NET source code for debugging purposes online. (100% legal, but you won't be able to change it, off course.) I haven't tried it yet, since I am still stuck with 2005 and .NET 3.0. How do you want to bind your ObservableCollection? One of the easiest way to do it is to expose the ObservableCollection as a (possibly dependency) property on your control. You can now use a syntax like this [CODE] ItemsSource={Binding ElementName=ControlWithDesiredProperty, Path=ItemCollectionPropertyName} [/CODE] This would assume that you're naming your control in the XAML with x:Name=ControlWithDesiredProperty (x being your "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" namespace.) If you go deeper into templating, you will probably use TemplateBinding and RelativeSources in your bindings, and will do without using elementnames. Instead of using the ElementName, you can also set the DataContext to that element (if you have multiple bindings to the same element, this will probably clear up the code...) What usually isn't enough is just setting the ItemsSource property to your desired collection (in code) if you expect the collection itself to be replaced often. (If you use change its contents, it will work fine). [/QUOTE]

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