WPF Example: Create UserControl and binding properties in a ListBox

see http://decav.com/blogs/andre/archive/2007/05/27/wpf-binding-to-properties-in-your-usercontrol-or-window.aspx

In order to bind the property, it needs to be a DependencyProperty, but not just that! You also need a control in XAML binding to your property. For example the following Control1 has a Message property:

XAML:

<UserControl x:Class="JSpike.Control1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    x:Name="Control1Name">

    <Grid>
        <TextBlock x:Name="textBlock" Text="{Binding ElementName=Control1Name, Path=Message}"
 Width="100" Height="25" Background="Aquamarine"></TextBlock>     
    </Grid>
</UserControl>

CS:

namespace JSpike
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Interaction logic for Control1.xaml
    /// </summary>
    public partial class Control1 : UserControl
    {
        public Control1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        public static DependencyProperty MessageProperty = DependencyProperty.Register(
            "Message", typeof(string), typeof(Control1));


        public string Message
        {
            get
            {
                return (string)GetValue(MessageProperty);
            }
            set
            {
                SetValue(MessageProperty, value);
            }

        }
    }

Now I want to bind this in a ListBox on Window1.xaml:

XAML:

<Window x:Class="JSpike.Window1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:myCtrl="clr-namespace:JSpike"
    Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300">
    <Window.Resources>
        <ObjectDataProvider x:Key="MyStringData" 
                        ObjectType="{x:Type myCtrl:ListOfStuff}" MethodName="GetList" />

    </Window.Resources>
    <Grid>
        <ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource MyStringData}}"
 Margin="0,36,78,0">
            <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <myCtrl:Control1 Message="{Binding Path=.}" Height="37"
 HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="105"></myCtrl:Control1>
                </DataTemplate>
            </ListBox.ItemTemplate>

        </ListBox>
    </Grid>
</Window>

Class ListOfStuff is the data provider:

namespace JSpike
{
    class ListOfStuff
    {
        public List<string> GetList()
            {
                List<string> list = new List<string>();
                list.Add("Hello");
                list.Add("Goodbye");
                list.Add("Heya");
                list.Add("Cya");
                return list;
            }
    }
}

Result: