Part 8: Understanding how Data Binding Works at Design Time (Channel 9)

Part 8: Understanding how Data Binding Works at Design Time

Posted: Oct 26, 2012 at 9:27 AM

By: Dan Fernandez, Bob Tabor

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In this lesson we take a short aside and learn about the design time experience in Visual Studio and learn how it is able to render sample data. This gives us insights into binding syntax, data collections, schemas and more.

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LukePuplett

Jan 11, 2013 at 3:03 AM

I used to be able to just detect design-time in the page constructor and hook-up some view models with some fake data. This no longer seems to work; I set the DefaultViewModel but the IDEs still say that there's no DataContext set, but it works at runtime.
I take it something has changed from WP7, SL and WPF. How do we simply add fake values to TextBlock controls? There's no fallback value either.
LukePuplett

Jan 11, 2013 at 3:05 AM

P.S. I didn't know about the dark "Blue Thunder" (my name) VS theme until this series, so I'm pleased if I only learned that
BobTabor

Jan 16, 2013 at 3:20 PM

@LukePuplett: Hi Luke, I'm sorry I don't have an answer for you here. I was not aware that anything changed, but I'm definitely not an authority on these matters. If I come across anything I posted it here. Sorry!
Beau

Feb 19, 2013 at 5:24 PM

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BobTabor

Feb 20, 2013 at 9:29 AM

@Beau: Thanks Beau! Unfortunately I have no coupon codes or anything like that. There is a sale going on for our 10 years anniversary ... since it will be year 11 here in a few days, I would jump on that quickly. Best wishes!!!