Binding to static property

Question

I\'m having a hard time binding a simple static string property to a TextBox.

Here\'s the class with the static property:

Answer 1

These answers are all good if you want to follow good conventions but the OP wanted something simple, which is what I wanted too instead of dealing with GUI design patterns. If all you want to do is have a string in a basic GUI app you can update ad-hoc without anything fancy, you can just access it directly in your C# source.

Let's say you've got a really basic WPF app MainWindow XAML like this,

That will look something like this:

In your MainWindow XAML's source, you could have something like this where all we're doing in changing the value directly via textBlock.Text's get/set functionality:

using System.Windows;

namespace MyWPFApp
{
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        public MainWindow() { InitializeComponent(); }

        private void Button_Click_Poke_Kilroy(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            textBlock.Text = "              \\|||/\r\n" +
                             "              (o o) \r\n" +
                             "----ooO- (_) -Ooo----";
        }
    }
}

Then when you trigger that click event by clicking the button, voila! Kilroy appears :)