Binding Silverlight UserControl custom properties to its' elements

Question

I\'m trying to make a simple crossword puzzle game in Silverlight 2.0. I\'m working on a UserControl-ish component that represents a square in the puzzle. I\'m having trouble wi

Answer 1

I may not be understanding your issue exactly. In Silverlight, you are able to bind to almost any data object. So, if you have a PuzzleSquare class that contains properties Content and Label, you may bind to these properties directly from the object.

Let's say you created a simple object PuzzleSquare:

    public class PuzzleSquare
    {
      public string Content{ get; set; }
      public string Label{ get; set; }

      public void PuzzleSquare(){};
      public void PuzzleSquare(string label, string content):this()
      {
         Content = content;
         Label = label;
      }    
    }

So, if you are building the app with the classic view/code behind model, your code behind would add this object to the DataContext property of the grid on page load:

LayoutRoot.DataContext = new PuzzleSquare("1", "A");

Your Xaml would bind to the Square property:

Does that make sense?

ib.