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Jesse Liberty has posted the continuation of his previous mini-tutorial on Data Binding.

Source: Jesse Liberty's Blog

Insurrection on this series! Fair enough, it is based on the quite legitimate complaint that the mini-tutorials were too mini and not enough tutorial. To make up for this deficiency, this mini-tutorial will cover steps 2 and 3 described in the previous mini-tutorial: creating the form and basic data binding.

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In the next couple mini-tutorials on Windows Phone 7 starting with this one, Jesse Liberty is going to discuss Data Binding.

Source: Jesse Liberty's Blog

Databinding is a somewhat advanced topic, typically covered in the second or even the final third of most Silverlight books. We’re going to tackle it in the next couple mini-tutorials because

• It isn’t difficult to understand
• It isn’t difficult to implement
• It is critical both to most applications and to the principal design pattern used with Windows Phone: MVVM

• Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-Tutorials #1: Getting Started
• Windows Phone From Scratch Mini-Tutorials #2: Silverlight vs XNA
• Windows Phone From Scratch #3 – First Project 
• Windows Phone From Scratch #4 – First Xaml 

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Thanks to everyone who actively participated in Gill Cleeren's webinar on Data Binding!

Gill did his best to reply to as many questions as possible during the allocated Q&A time. The replies to the rest of the questions have been personally emailed to the users who addressed them.

A list of all questions and answers unaddressed during the live session is now available for download here.

See you at the next upcoming SilverlightShow Webinars!

A free chapter from Gill Cleeren's book 'Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook' is now available to SilverlightShow community. The chapter, named Introduction to Data Binding, is available for download here (4.4 MB).

A 20% price discount for this book (when purchased from Packt Publishing website) is available to SilverlightShow community. Use code SShow20Net at checkout.

'Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook' is the latest book of Gill Cleeren (read book interview with the author). Gill has authored several articles and recently delivered a highly successful webinar on Data Binding for SilverlightShow (check other scheduled SilverlightShow webinars).

Source: ScottLogic

This article is part 3 of 4 in a series covering everything that I think is worth knowing about styles in Silverlight. The previous parts of the series are Styles in Silverlight: an Introduction and Styles in Silverlight – Inheritance, Precedence and Other Advanced Topics.

Watch a recording of SilverlightShow webinar Data Binding in Action, delivered by Gill Cleeren (read full webinar info).

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The webinar covered the following topics:

• Data binding explained
• Binding single elements and collections 
• The importance of INotifyPropertyChanged and INotifyPropertyChanged 
• Binding modes 
• Silverlight 4 BindingBase properties 
• Validation, IDataErrorInfo and INotifyDataErrorInfo 
• Data binding as the enabler for MVVM and commanding 
• Binding from Blend 4 
• Using design-time data features

Gill answered part of the questions submitted by the audience during the webinar Q&A session. The answers to the rest of the questions will be published on SilverlightShow soon.

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Update: watch the video recording of this webinar.

Join today's free SilverlightShow webinar 'Silverlight's Power features: Data Binding in Action', delivered by Gill Cleeren.

The webinar will start at 10 am PDT (check your local time) and will include a 45-min presentation, and a Q&A session. Gill Cleeren will try to reply to as many questions as possible within the time allocated. All unanswered questions will be replied to after the webinar, via email.

A recording of the full webinar will be emailed to everyone who registered for this webinar, and will also be published on SilverlightShow webinars page. 

Fill in our post-webinar evaluation survey! Three attendees who provided constructive feedback will get a free ebook copy of Gill Cleeren's latest book.

Free SilverlightShow Webinar: Silverlight’s power features - Data binding in action
 

August 19th, 2010, 10 am - 11 am PDT (see your local time)

Register for this webinar

Building enterprise applications with Silverlight almost begs for rich data binding features. While Silverlight 2 already had an extended set of features available to enable data binding, Silverlight 3 and 4 add on these and extend the databinding platform. In this webinar, we’ll start with a complete overview of the data binding features Silverlight 4 has to offer. We’ll take a look at how data binding is the enabler for applying the MVVM (ViewModel) pattern and commanding as well. Finally, we’ll open Blend and see its support for data binding, including the use of design-time data.
 
Main topics to be covered:

• Data binding explained
• Binding single elements and collections
• The importance of INotifyPropertyChanged and INotifyPropertyChanged
• Binding modes
• Silverlight 4 BindingBase properties
• Validation, IDataErrorInfo and INotifyDataErrorInfo
• Data binding as the enabler for MVVM and commanding
• Binding from Blend 4
• Using design-time data features

Participate in our post-webinar survey! Give your evaluation on the quality of the webinar topic, and how well it was presented. The three webinar attendees who provided the most constructive feedback will get a free ebook copy of Gill Cleeren's book “Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook”!

About the speaker:
Gill Cleeren is Microsoft Regional Director (www.theregion.com), MVP ASP.NET, INETA speaker bureau member and Silverlight Insider.

He lives in Belgium where he works as .NET architect at Ordina. Passionate about .NET, he’s always playing with the newest bits. In his role as Regional Director, Gill has given many sessions, webcasts and trainings on new as well as existing technologies, such as Silverlight, ASP.NET and WPF at conferences including TechDays Belgium, DevDays Netherlands, NDC Norway, SQL Server Saturday Switzerland, Spring Conference UK, etc. He’s also the author of many articles in various developer magazines and organizes the yearly Community Day event in Belgium.

Gill also leads Visug (www.visug.be), the largest .NET user group in Belgium. He recently published his first book: “Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook” (Packt Publishing). You can find his blog at www.snowball.be.

Who is this webinar appropriate for:
Silverlight developers (both experienced and aspiring)
People willing to learn the nuts and bolts of the data binding engine

Duration:
60 minutes, including Q&A

Technical Requirements:
Internet connection and computer speakers for audio.

UPDATE:

Download demo and slides
View webinar recording

I create value converters so often in my Silverlight and WPF development, that I created a C# item template that I use over and over in Visual Studio.  I’ve posted the item template to the Visual Studio Gallery so you can use it too.  The Visual Studio Gallery is integrated with Visual Studio 2010, so you can install and start using the template right from Visual Studio.