Windows 8 Primer–Data Binding (Part 1)

Data-binding is often thought of as an advanced topic, but there really is no reason for that. data-binding is

• Critical to writing XAML applications
• Not very difficult to learn
• A very powerful technique

Note to Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone Programmers: Nothing Here Is New.  Data-binding in 
Windows 8 works exactly as you expect.

The basic idea behind data-binding couldn’t be simpler: we are going to provide values to UIElements based on the values of objects or of other UIElements.  In this first tutorial, we’ll keep it simple and bind the value of POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects) to UI elements.

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