When looking at features in our favorite platforms, we oftenforget that the tooling gets updated too. For Silverlight 5, one ofthe most interesting tooling enhancements is the ability to setbreakpoints and debug bindings in XAML.
Please note that this article and the attached sample code waswritten using the Silverlight 5 Beta, available at MIX11 in April2011.
Binding problems can be notoriously difficult to debug. Theresimply was no place to put debug code in, unless you wanted towrite a custom debugger value converter and attach that to all yourbindings. One misspelled word, or a mistake in the data context,and you would get the silent treatment from the runtime. Of course,many of the errors show up in the Output window, as long as youremember to check it. The binding xaml breakpoints is a moreflexible and powerful, so we'll look at that here.
Project SetupFor this project, I'll have a Model folder with the Personclass, and a Vie ...
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